On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 1:24 PM Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com> wrote:

The secondary point is they could have *added* to Unix by making a
man2info command

Exactly!!!! That's what Eric did when he wrote more(ucb) - he added to Unix. The funny part was that USG thought more(ucb) was a good idea and then wrote their own, pg(att); which was just as arrogant as the info behavior from the Gnu folks!!! Later, Less(internet) replaced more, but only as a superset, building on the foundation and eventually USB chose to ship more also as so many people wanted it.

As I said yesterday, standing on the shoulders, not on their toes.