Nobody has the right to decide anything. Nobody is payed for working on the Hurd's future and has to obey his employer's rules.
You forgot the person who created the GNU project. He has much to decide. And RMS will sure enjoy delaying the GNU system for another 20 years because of `I don't like POSIX'. Everyone of us is working on this project in his spare time. If Marcus et al. want to work on building a new, forward-oriented operating system `Hurd', that is fine. Then it shouldn't be a GNU project. The Hurd is the kernel of the GNU system, not a new fangled operating system that can't run any programs from the GNU project. If Alfred et al. want to work on preserving and bug-fixing the current implementation of the Hurd, that is also fine. I actually don't want that, there are several faults in the current implementation, but none that people have pointed out or cares about. Important parts, like drivers--the lack of a half decent driver framework is a huge design flaw, both in the Hurd, and Hurd/L4 (and don't kid me it doesn't have a driver framework yet). People only care about totally unimportant things that can actually be fixed without any complete redesign and ditching several gigs of code as Jonathan suggests. _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
