There are basically two ways to look at the fact that we're still using many of the same command line tools today that originated on UNIX of around half a century ago:
1) Serious stagnation
2) Ken and Dennis and the rest of the gang in the Bell Labs MH1127 lab, etc. got it right
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That's more a cultural thing from the free software/source access side that we don't have things like
tar -xJ foo.tar.xz
tar: xz is a premium plan feature, please upgrade your subscription to a GNU Pro subscription to use this feature.
And if you think you can't enshittify standard Unix tools I suggest you try installing an HP/UX box or some others where all sorts of tools are in other add on packs.
Lauren Weinstein
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