@lxo Hm, I don't really agree. I don't think any components of Alpine are majorly influenced by GNUs design; at least not as much as the BSDs influenced them. I think the only thing Alpine really "owes" to GNU is its use of the GPL for packages like Linux.

GNU is not UNIX, but it was heavily modeled around it. Alpine isn't really modeled GNU.

I was kidding, but we shouldn't underestimate the power of hatred as a motivator. a lot of the GNU replacement software that goes in Alpine was developed out of hatred, not specifically towards GNU, but as a reaction to GNU and to the fact that GNU was the operating system that Torvalds chose to run on top of the kernel he wrote, and that made GNU+Linux software, cooperation and competition the driving forces for much of what the software freedom communities accomplished afterwards. some perceptions may vary depending on one's alignment and role in that history, and counterfactuals are not good as evidence, but even if either or both could have made it by itself, together they made quite a hit, and it's not viable or sensible to try to find which one of the two had a higher impact or can lay larger claims of merit, any more than trying to figure out whether it's the hydrogen or the oxygen that propels the rocket: the power comes, and came, from combining them