My understanding is that Richard Stallman hasn't been significantly involved with the Hurd project for a very long time - it's being driven by the developers, w

My understanding is that Richard Stallman hasn't been significantly involved with the Hurd project for a very long time - it's being driven by the developers, who are motivated by their passion for the design goals of the project. Basically, as soon as Linux existed and creating a kernel ceased to be an immediate need for the GNU project, the Hurd stopped being an "industrial" project and became a research project. The small team of developers that remains is trying to make a fundamental technical advance in operating systems; that's always fraught with uncertainty, and there's nothing wrong with that.