Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:18:23 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: GPLv3 Position Statement |
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>> >The last Q. is how good is the almost forgotten Hurd kernel? >> >> Wild guess: At most on par with Minix. > >...and here's a thing that most people forget: good code simply doesn't >care about ideology, and ideology often does the wrong technical decisions >because it's not about practical issues. > >The watch-word in Linux development has been "pragmatism". That's probably >part of what drives the FSF wild about Linux in the first place. I care >about _practical_ issues, not about wild goose chases. > >If I weren't into computers, I'd be in science. And the rules in science >are the same: you simply can't do good science if you start with an >agenda. If you say that you'll never touch high-energy physics because >you find the atom bomb to be morally reprehensible, that's your right, but >you have to also realize that then you can never actually understand the >world, and do everything you may need to do. >[...] >In many ways, the GPLv3 is about "religion". They limit the technology [...]
Oops, I think we misunderstand each other right now. I took the above question as how functional (=good) is Hurd. I did not mean to talk about licensing here.
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