On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 10:06:49PM +0000, Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha wrote:
I don't think that saying Linux is badly done and technically a disaster,
Should I lie to give Linux credit?
Surely not. But then, Linux's success has proved you wrong.
Sure, but that doesn't make it technically good. But there is sure one thing Linus really should get credit: Open Development, i.e. "release often, release early" thing. That's one of the biggest mistakes of the Hurd, the development wasn't open in the beginning.
I give credit to Linux for whatever they do. From my point of view they took away the people from the Hurd and caused that GNU isn't as known in the community as it should be.
Linux's use makes GNU to be known as well. Also, you claim that it took people from the Hurd, when they weren't on Hurd to begin with...
You're right. But certainly everybody is hacking GNU/Linux and not GNU/Hurd. I think it's likely that those people would have been hacking GNU/Hurd now if Linux didn't exist.
Linux brought people and developers to Free Software, people that didn't do that just for Hurd's sake.
GNU/Linux did that, not Linux on its own. Sure, Linux did a big job, but not on its own and I don't believe Linux could have do it without GNU.
Jeroen Dekkers