I am sorry, but I am only seeing weeny type arguments for HURD.
Looking at the HURD programming progress shows up that there was some progress in 1996 and 1997. Please note that this was some years _after_ Linux became successful. For this reason, I cannot see that Linux should be responsible for the HURD desaster.
If you believe that Hurd is a good idea, then stop talking about hurd and start working on hurd. Once it becomes usable and has the features requested by the users it will be used by a noticable number of people.
Any OS that nobody likes to run cdrecord on could be considered dead these days....
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