Your complaint about GNU was that it departed from the UNIX philosophy of one tool doing one thing, and then contrasted that philosophy with what 'real' computer scientists do. Last I checked, there is no 'rule' in computer science that tools must do one thing.
GNU is not Unix, as the name so clearly articulates, so other than your seeming complaint that 'real' computer scientists always write Unix-style utilities, I'm not sure how your criticism of GNU tools doing more than one thing is at all relevant.
FreeBSD was released in 1993, and NetBSD in the same year. BSD as a whole only went from a proprietary distribtuion to open source in that year. GNU was started in 1983, thus making even that criticism of GNU completely unfounded.
GNU is not Unix, as the name so clearly articulates, so other than your seeming complaint that 'real' computer scientists always write Unix-style utilities, I'm not sure how your criticism of GNU tools doing more than one thing is at all relevant.
FreeBSD was released in 1993, and NetBSD in the same year. BSD as a whole only went from a proprietary distribtuion to open source in that year. GNU was started in 1983, thus making even that criticism of GNU completely unfounded.