>In fact, if more people actually internalized what computing freedom means, and what the technology landscape could one day look like, then GNU/Hurd would alre

>In fact, if more people actually internalized what computing freedom means, and what the technology landscape could one day look like, then GNU/Hurd would already be finished, it would look like Windows 10, and there would be far fewer proprietary software apologists on Hacker News, dismissing this post. Not to be mean but have you tried even creating a toy kernel yourself with modern tools? Now imagine doing that in the 1980s when none of those tools existed (it's why bison exists for programming language construction and the like). It doesn't matter how many people you throw at a project if the scope of it is as generalized as an operating system tool kit and kernel then it's going to take a long time to build it and longer still to extend support for it to newer hardware (especially in light of how many modern motherboards and peripherals have blackboxed firmware that's patent encumbered). And that's just the technical limitations. When you factor in the problem of managing different groups, keeping them on target for features to be released and bugfixes, egos to be checked/soothed, and so forth then you got a problem that would make the creation of the US Constitution seem easy. Ultimately, I think folks like you are the classic true believers that don't have much in the way of understanding people. You demand people to comply to your ideologies even if their lives are lessened by it. You demand that each person wears a hair shirt just for the sake of it. And that for me isn't something I can see working. Anarchists tried that crap in the 19th century and it failed terribly (and I'm an anarchist today). Purism is cute and it's nice when you write about in essays, but it's not how you get real people with irrational beliefs, subjective one-off experiences, and divergent goals to adopt and apply your ideology. You start on the basics and you yourself show others how that works out in those basic situations. Before you demand others to apply your specific approach to Free Software ask yourself if it actually adds immediate value their lives. If not then your approach fails to be useful or effective. And your purity for its own sake is a weak excuse for actual results. /rant