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Wrong!Wrong!Posted Jun 6, 2002 17:09 UTC (Thu) by Steve_Baker (subscriber, #265)In reply to: Wrong! by sam Parent article: GNU & Linux???
You presume that the slow development of the HURD can only be attributed to the success of Linux, however you proceed from a false assumption. There were many more factors in the success of Linux than mear timing. First there are the design differences, not everyone agrees that the Microkernel approach is best. Lest we forget that the BSDs still remain far more popular than the HURD. I'd wager that the BSDs would have obtained the lionshare of attention in the absence of Linux. Secondly, and perhaps more importantly there is the development environment itself. For all the openness that the GPL imparts, historically the GNU development process has been at least percieved to be far less open than even BSDs', and principally due to the cults of personality that the GNU project harbors. Linux was the right project, at the right time, with the right license and above all, with the right lead developer.
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