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>    It seems to be that time has passed by the Hurd.  No one cares, and
> no one will use it if it ever becomes real.  I think that is time to
> kill its development and move on to better things.

First point, it's not irrelevant, because it's a different beast than
either Linux or OSF.

Second, although I don't agree with this myself, many believe that
a GPL'ed OS would be better in terms of promoting free software than
a completely unrestricted OSF.  (although this says nothing about
promoting software in general)

Finally, there's this attitude in your assertion that I see over and
over that I can't understand at all.  Even if Hurd were useless and
redundant, why the heck do you even care?  Does having people work
on bother you somehow?  People work on model railroads at home, and
rarely do I hear people bitch about how this is unproductive.  Yet all
the time I hear people whine that this or that is unproductive, even
though it doesn't affect them one whit.  People bitched about Linux.
People post in UNIX advocacy groups saying that UNIX is dead and that
everyone needs to become Windows programmers the very next day.  Some
people even bitch that people should stop learning Esperanto.

Why is this?  Why are people so damned concerned about someone not
being in the mainstream?  Maybe some of these people are just
concerned about future competition (ie, Hurd will cause lost sales),
but most of the time I see this phenomena I don't get that impression.
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Darin Johnson
djohnson@ucsd.edu
  - Grad school - just say no.