From e7456b671d5e0a5813b9f4ca4feb37ac3702fa37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Schwinge Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:46:49 +0200 Subject: faq/so_many_years: Polish. --- faq/how_many_developers.mdwn | 3 +++ faq/so_many_years.mdwn | 17 ++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'faq') diff --git a/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn b/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn index 2a3894bd..da457d96 100644 --- a/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn +++ b/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn @@ -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. -- cgit v1.2.3