On Thursday 28 March 2002 1:53 am, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 01:35:56PM +0000, phil hunt wrote:
Indeed; therefore more users for GNU software. Thanks almost entirely to the popularity of GNU/Linux distributions, the GNU GPL is now the mnost-copied dopcument in the world -- more copies of it exist than the Bible and Koran put together.
As with the Bible and with the Koran: It doesn't matter how many copies exists, if nobody reads them.
True. I for one have read the GPL.
And what? This is (maybe) a sad thing, but I think that Linux has done an excelent work.
I think he could have done a much better job.
You are welcome to write a better kernel yourself :-)
No need to joke. I am working on it.
That's good -- I hope you are successful.
You can listen to one of my talks in summer (planned is UKUUG in Bristol and LSM in Bordeaux) on how we are doing it.
I may well do so.
Yes, Linux isn't perfect. What large piece of software in production use, and hacked on by many people, is?
It doesn't need to be perfect. Quality is not a black-or-white issue.
Indeed so.
Why would you want a graphics driver in the kernel? Doesn't it traditionally (in the Unix world) go outside?
I don't want a graphics driver in the kernel. I don't want any driver in the kernel, to be honest ;) But having said that, I don't want a webserver in the kernel either. But see, there is a webserver in Linux. Does that make you wonder? It should.
The khttpd webserver was added because of claims that Linux was too slow in serving static web pages.
Things like free software, user freedom, cooperation, code reuse, and compatibility are very important for the Hurd system.
Then I hope Hurd is successful. If Hurd and Linux are both successful, there will hopefully be some friendly competition between them.
Well, that will surely happen. However, what I would prefer is cooperation, rather than competition.
IMO a bit of both is good.