Re: [OT] Interview with Con Kolivas on Linux failures
On Jul 24, 2007, at 8:34 AM, Kent West wrote:
It'd be nice if a coder of Con's caliber were to get interested in
the HURD. I think that project has a lot of potential, but I'm
afeared it has little future without some motivated developers.
HURD kind of suffers from being late to the party. It would have to
offer something really new and exciting to pull people away from
Linux and BSD, I think.
To me it always smacked a little of "me-too-ism", too ... the GNU
folks felt Linux wasn't GNU-ish enough, so they had to go write their
own kernel. I'm sure the wars with Linus over the new GPL version
will only intensify that desire, because now they can point to Linux
and say it's not "pure" license-wise.
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