Re: The Hurd: what is it?

[Marco Gerards]

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:

>    What we need is people that do what they want to do.
>
> That is what people have been doing for the past 10 years, and we are
> still stuck at the same spot.  And now we have two different code
> bases, with nothing in common, with the possibility of having a third
> code base that doesn't even exist yet.  That is what you get when you
> let people do what they want.

You are working on the Hurd for 10 years already? wow

Besides that, the direction was pretty clear until people started
talking about porting to L4.

> So once again, can people shut the hell up with saying "do what you
> want", since it has never worked to move forward?

So you are saying we should:

a) Force people to do something they don't want to do.
or
b) Hold people's hands and don't expect any initiative.

Or is there a c?

--
Marco