Re: Time to Forget About Hurd??

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From: Arthur Kreitman
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 02:27

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In article <D62EwI.DyF@world.std.com> aml@world.std.com (Andrew M. Langmead) writes:

>   Free Software Foundation proponents may point out to you that a free
>   unrestricted license isn't the same as the GPL. I don't know what the
>   details of the OSF license is, but it probably allows people to make
>   proprietary modifications to the published source. It will put people
   It depends on your viewpoint.  There are those who don't believe that
the GPL is the one, true religion.  If you should subscribe to the GPL faith,
the fsf has its very own toquamoda to keep you faith pure.

>   That might be true if the Hurd was a clone of a traditional Unix. From
>   the information that has been released, that is far from the case. The
>   way it is designed with most of the kernel functionality replaced by

  The Hurd appears to be a clone of the microkernel design that OSF/1
(with the CMU mach folks) pioneered.

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Subject: Re: Time to Forget About Hurd??
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