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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by pjlegato on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:28AM (#36123995)
As a direct result of Stallman's uncompromising disinterest in what values people in the broader world actually wanted to engage with -- instead attempting to dictate his own moral views as a petty tyrant -- GNU _as a project_ hasn't been relevant to computing for decades.

When was the last time you booted up the Hurd kernel? I would be surprised if more than 10% of HN readers even know what that is. (Stallman actually summarily dismissed Hurd's lead developer when he dared to criticize the GFDL in public. https://lwn.net/Articles/59147/)

Stallman's abrasive and confrontational posturing is related to but distinct from his ideological goals. His rude posturing actually _damaged_ the chances of ever reaching those goals.

Even the GNU "copyleft" license -- the project's greatest success in terms of "actually impacting the world" -- has fallen more and more into disuse in favor of less restrictive licenses such as BSD and MIT.

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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by kevviiinn on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @08:47AM (#36124185)
AFAIK the Hurd kernel isn't ready for production because Linux is so solid so it hasn't been focused on
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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by ebiester on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:30AM (#36125294)
That is true today, but Linux didn’t have that much of a lead. People chose to develop for Linux instead when the future was in doubt, and that was largely due to the pragmatism of Linus.
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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by arp242 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @10:41AM (#36125427)
GNU wants to recreate a 1988 Unix. That's not necessarily a bad thing – I'm an old Unix beardy type myself as well – but it's not really how you stay at the forefront of computing, yeah. Also didn't help Stallman alienated the GNOME and GTK people so they're not longer GNU projects (and they were independent for a long time before that anyway).

There are still some important GNU projects though, GCC, GNU libc, and Grub being the most notable.

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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by toyg on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @11:46AM (#36126214)
> didn't help Stallman alienated the GNOME and GTK people

I don't know the details but, I mean, GNOME/GTK people themselves have been very good at alienating folks of all sorts...

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Re:Rust has been forked to the Crab Language by dralley on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:47PM (#36128000)
>There are still some important GNU projects though, GCC, GNU libc, and Grub being the most notable.

Except he's pissed off most of those people too.

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