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To: dayglored

True. Only 8 billion people qualify.


63 posted on 01/13/2019 9:48:20 AM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking
The good news, regarding Stallman, is that I don't have to deal with him and his proclivities, in order to use his software. (Same true of Torvalds.) I have used GNU software since before there was Linux, and am grateful for and appreciative of Stallman's huge efforts.

I'm also grateful that his Hurd kernel never made it into production, thus giving Torvalds the impetus to do the Linux kernel. I don't get into arguments about monolithic kernels (e.g. Linux) vs. microkernels (e.g. Hurd). Rather, I suspect the Hurd kernel would have been a disaster had it made it to real production, given the lack of authoritative technical oversight that is endemic to the GNU world. Wikipedia offers this interesting insight:

According to Thomas Bushnell, the initial Hurd architect, their early plan was to adapt the 4.4BSD-Lite kernel and, in hindsight, "It is now perfectly obvious to me that this would have succeeded splendidly and the world would be a very different place today".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd#Development_history

Oh well. Ya pays yer money and ya takes yer choice.

64 posted on 01/13/2019 11:40:17 AM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government."`)
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