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by floren 1117 days ago
Specifically, info appears to come from ITS. Stallman hacked on ITS back in the day, and the first time I logged into an ITS system (http://up.dfupdate.se/, if you're curious) and used the online help system, I suddenly realized why GNU was always trying to foist this weird manpage alternative on us.

(I remember back when I first got into Linux, like early 2000s, it seemed like a lot of the core GNU man pages were just stubs that said "For documentation, use the info system". Luckily they seem to have backtracked on that?)