>>19
We're not just after small and efficient. BB is GPL, we're going for public domain and small and efficient.

>>13,21

• GNU cat has 11 more options than POSIX requires, and if you read the spec, at the bottom it says that those options were omitted from the standard because they can be duplicated with sed.
• For echo, POSIX specifies that ``implementations shall not support any options'' while GNU's version has 4.
• GNU pwd has two options, but they are not the two that POSIX requires. (We'll probably move pwd into bash though)

We are not reimplementing the GNU coreutils, we are writing POSIX utilities which just so happen to be included in the GNU coreutils. As the Anonix plan indicates, our goal is to develop a public-domain (even more free than GPL, slightly more free than BSD, and anonymous) POSIX implementation.