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authorSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2013-09-28 16:22:08 +0200
committerSamuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>2013-09-28 16:22:08 +0200
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-[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation,
-Inc."]]
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
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[[!tag faq/general faq/_important]]
-[[!meta title="How is it that the Hurd does not do foo and bar, after so many years of development?"]]
+[[!meta title="Why is it that the Hurd still does not do [...] after so many
+years of development?"]]
-
-Remember that what counts is years.people, not just years, so it
-can't be compared to e.g. Linux or BSD development so trivially. See
-[[how_many_developers|how many developers]] are working on the Hurd, it is
-actually impressive that so much has been done in the past couple of decades
-with so few people.
+Remember that what counts is not just *years* but rather *years x people*, and
+in this regard, the investment into GNU Hurd's development is way below that of
+the Linux kernel or the BSDs. Considering [[how_many_developers]] are (and
+have been) working on the Hurd, it is actually impressive that so much has been
+achieved in the past couple of decades with so few people.