Re: The Hurd: what is it?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

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

> So we should wait another 5? 10? 20 years? before someone makes a
> solid decision and one decides that we should just throw away a bunch
> of years worth of work?  If anything, that is what is not productive,
> it is also not productive to work on two code bases at the same time.

So says you.  Nobody is suggesting you should work on two at the same
time.

Really, this is kind of vapid.  

I tell my students, who are invariably shocked, that when they write a
paper they should expect to throw away as much prose as they include
in the final paper.