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Corporate takeover?
Ubuntu has always belong to a corporation.
It's not like it's a community project. Ubuntu has always belonged to Canonical.
Coreutils isn't only for ubuntu. Ubuntu just seems to be the lab rat corporation.
There are many kinds of corporations, my friend. Canonical is different from Apple. Wait a second... Wasn't OS X built on FreeBSD?