Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751773AbWI1IUF (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:20:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751774AbWI1IUE (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:20:04 -0400 Received: from emailer.gwdg.de ([134.76.10.24]:4755 "EHLO emailer.gwdg.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751773AbWI1IUB (ORCPT ); Thu, 28 Sep 2006 04:20:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:18:23 +0200 (MEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Linus Torvalds cc: Sergey Panov , James Bottomley , linux-kernel Subject: Re: GPLv3 Position Statement In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <1158941750.3445.31.camel@mulgrave.il.steeleye.com> <1159319508.16507.15.camel@sipan.sipan.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Report: Content analysis: 0.0 points, 6.0 required _SUMMARY_ Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1446 Lines: 35 >> >The last Q. is how good is the almost forgotten Hurd kernel? >> >> Wild guess: At most on par with Minix. > >...and here's a thing that most people forget: good code simply doesn't >care about ideology, and ideology often does the wrong technical decisions >because it's not about practical issues. > >The watch-word in Linux development has been "pragmatism". That's probably >part of what drives the FSF wild about Linux in the first place. I care >about _practical_ issues, not about wild goose chases. > >If I weren't into computers, I'd be in science. And the rules in science >are the same: you simply can't do good science if you start with an >agenda. If you say that you'll never touch high-energy physics because >you find the atom bomb to be morally reprehensible, that's your right, but >you have to also realize that then you can never actually understand the >world, and do everything you may need to do. >[...] >In many ways, the GPLv3 is about "religion". They limit the technology [...] Oops, I think we misunderstand each other right now. I took the above question as how functional (=good) is Hurd. I did not mean to talk about licensing here. Jan Engelhardt -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/