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mschuster91 on July 27, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Toybox, a Busybox alternative with a BSD license

If I may ask,why all the effort of reinventing the wheel as there already exists the gnu userland/coreutils and busybox? Just because of the license?!

tjaerv on July 27, 2013 | [–]

Yes, because of licensing. See his recent presentation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0

jahewson on July 27, 2013 | [–]

He also argues that busybox has now become bloatware with a large attack surface area.

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