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authorThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-09-26 11:46:49 +0200
committerThomas Schwinge <thomas@codesourcery.com>2013-09-26 11:46:49 +0200
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parent5c9c9a00f98cd9cf17dab3837af55118c282bdf8 (diff)
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@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ development. For one, this is a good thing: independency; no conflicts of
interests. For another, it is also a bad thing: no dedicated full-time
manpower -- which matters a lot.
+This also answers the question why [[the Hurd still does not do [...] after so
+many years of development|so_many_years]].
+
# Why So Few?
diff --git a/faq/so_many_years.mdwn b/faq/so_many_years.mdwn
index 8c5ce4a0..f69243f5 100644
--- a/faq/so_many_years.mdwn
+++ b/faq/so_many_years.mdwn
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
-[[!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
@@ -11,11 +10,11 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!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.