28 Oct
2006
28 Oct
'06
2:15 p.m.
2006/10/28, Kenneth Gonsalves lawgon@au-kbc.org:
if license is all that important, how come hurd is where it is?
Because Linux is GPL. Hurd was started because GNU project wanted a Free kernel tocomplete the GNU Operating System. Once Linux is available under GPL that goal is alreaday achieved, we have GNU/Linux as a variant of complete GNU Operating System . Only motivation to go ahead with Hurd is technical, because it tries to address some limitations of Unix design (some design compromises which was taken when we didn't have much resources and made sense at that time are still continuing ). So that proves license is more important than technical merits.
Cheers Praveen
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