Comments on: A quote from Richard Stallman http://www.darkcoding.net/ideas/a-quote-from-richard-stallman/ Solvitas perambulum Mon, 06 Feb 2012 00:12:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Knight http://www.darkcoding.net/ideas/a-quote-from-richard-stallman/#comment-1014 Steve Knight Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:05:43 +0000 http://www.darkcoding.net/?p=793#comment-1014 <p>Hmm, good article. Stallman's account has very many parallels with <a href="http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html" rel="nofollow">Worse is Better</a> by Richard Gabriel. So much so that I wouldn't be surprised if Gabriel is actually talking about HURD, since Gabriel's story about an MIT and a Berkeley guy dates from about the same time-line as the beginnings of HURD. I've no idea whether this is true or not though.</p> <p>It may also offer another, more tangible, explanation as to why HURD didn't succeed in the same way Linux did and another example of why the 'right' system is not always the right system.</p> Hmm, good article. Stallman’s account has very many parallels with Worse is Better by Richard Gabriel. So much so that I wouldn’t be surprised if Gabriel is actually talking about HURD, since Gabriel’s story about an MIT and a Berkeley guy dates from about the same time-line as the beginnings of HURD. I’ve no idea whether this is true or not though.

It may also offer another, more tangible, explanation as to why HURD didn’t succeed in the same way Linux did and another example of why the ‘right’ system is not always the right system.

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