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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by chugger on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:21PM (#3085707)
RMS: the guy who doesn't have what it takes to finish GNU even after 27 years.
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by astrodust on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:29PM (#3085746)
They finished the "Not Unix!" part, but then they have to go and do the remaining GNU part. Since it's recursive, this could take a while.
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by pjscott on Friday October 07, 2011 @05:26PM (#3086042)
The vast majority of GNU is running on every Linux machine out there. That's why RMS insists on calling such machines "GNU/Linux machines", because they're running GNU with Linux as the kernel.
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by burgerbrain on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:25PM (#3085730)
What would it even mean to "finish GNU"? That doesn't make any sense.
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by muyuu on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:34PM (#3085776)
He probably means Hurd.
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by chugger on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:28PM (#3085745)
the OS/kernel
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by burgerbrain on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:39PM (#3085799)
RMS has stated publicly that GNU Hurd has been significantly deprioritized for some time due to the introduction of Linux. Specifically noting that the deficiencies Linux suffers would not be resolved by the completion of GNU Hurd.

On the other hand, a friend of mine does use GNU Hurd on one of his machines. He's a little loopy though.

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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by jrockway on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:35PM (#3085780)
If you want GNU/Hurd so much, why don't you start working on it?
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by chugger on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:42PM (#3085811)
Sure. deprioritized. Whatever. HURD blows.
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by burgerbrain on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:45PM (#3085833)
"HURD blows."

Be careful, I think you just agreed with RMS there. ;)

On a more serious note, you seem to be doing some pretty heavy trolling today. Why don't you step back from the computer and go get some air? Life is good.

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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by pjscott on Friday October 07, 2011 @05:32PM (#3086070)
Hence its indefinite de-prioritization, yes. Is there actually a dispute here?
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Re:Why FSF Founder Richard Stallman is Wrong on Steve Jobs by chugger on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:50PM (#3085867)
you know what. i think that's a good idea.
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