Re: GPLv3 Position Statement

[Jan Engelhardt]

>> >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
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