On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 20:03 +0530, arnuld wrote: > why i am doing this? because *technically* Linux was possible because > of GNU. i am talking about tools & resources, not about freedom. even > if you cut away the freedom part GNU still wins the technical ground & > i am running a Linux based GNU system as my Desktop. that was possible > because of (tools + GPL) of GNU. i want to give a contribution in > return & i have decided that i will only work on "copyleft" softwares. > i & this whole world owe many thanks to RMS.
There are sometimes good reasons to not make software copyleft. You shouldn't say that you will never work on non-copyleft software. It's fair enough to say that you will never work (directly) on non-free software though. > i also know that even after decades of work *we* are not able to > create a microkernel based copyleft OS, one of my dreams. i include > myself in *we* as FSF is doing work for users & developers, not for > itself. after so much thought, i propose to write a new, fresh > microkernel for HURD OS & i am willing to help in coding. i know it is > not easy & i also know since early 1980s we kept on changing & > changing because of *things outside* . it is not bad but we have > neither failed nor succeeded, & that way from this path we carry lots > of experience & specific technical knowledge that very few people on > this planet possess. i propose to put our time & energy into the > application of the expertise we have into the direction where we have > never gone before, our own microkernel. GNU has it's own micro-kernel it's called GNU Mach, this is the official micro-kernel of the Hurd. Maybe you should work on that?[1] I don't think there are too many people who are willing to work on a completely new micro-kernel, and you'd be hard pressed to write a decent one by yourself. [1] http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Mach/GNUMachRevivalProject Regards, Daniel. _______________________________________________ L4-hurd mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/l4-hurd
