Re: The Hurd: what is it?

[Thomas Bushnell BSG]

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

>    > And once again, this is not what I asked.  I asked what the hell
>    > the Hurd is.
>
>    What would you do with the answer to this question?
>
> I'd hack some more.

You don't seem to see that the question "which branch succeeds" is a
direct consequence of which one gets the most hacking.

>    What do you think the answer to this question is?
>
> If I knew, then I wouldn't be here bitching about it now would I? :-)
> I'm not the maintainer, it is not my decision to make.  I also
> consider the actual answer unimportant, only that it gets a clear and
> a firm answer.

The maintainers don't know.