It sounds silly for deep theoricians and a somewhat politically active organization like GNU to have wanted to go all the way to an OS, the kind of software whe

It sounds silly for deep theoricians and a somewhat politically active organization like GNU to have wanted to go all the way to an OS, the kind of software where you really need to throw all the beauty out of the window and solve dumb users tangible problems, like how to read a bluray from an obscure proprietary drive or how to run a game with a monopolistic corporation's binary drivers. GNU can never succeed at it because it can never compromise and maybe that's fine. It's a shame that it s considered a failure when they accomplished so much in the OS scaffolding part.