OT: 'conduct unbecoming of a hacker'

[deadalnix via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 10 February 2016 at 18:31:22 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On 02/10/2016 01:09 PM, Joakim wrote:
>>
>> Pretty funny that he chose Stallman as his example of a guy 
>> who gets
>> stuff done, whose Hurd microkernel never actually got done, :) 
>> though
>> certainly ambitious, so Stallman would never have had a FOSS 
>> OS on which
>> to run his GNU tools if it weren't for Linus.
>>
>
> [Unimportant theorizing ahead...]
>
> I wouldn't say that's necessarily true: It could be argued the 
> existence and proliferation of the Linux kernel reduced the 
> priority of his Hurd work, even if only to a subconscious 
> extent. If it hadn't been for the Linux kernel, maybe there 
> would have been more drive (and more contributors) to Hurd.

Also because context switching got from a handful of cycle at the 
time to about 1000 cycles on modern CPU, making the idea of 
microkernel somewhat less attractive.

But saying Stallman released nothing is unfair. If we can 
consider hurd a failure, he was also behind emacs, early gcc and 
other things.