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diff --git a/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn b/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn index 93283113..ab8e8f28 100644 --- a/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn +++ b/faq/how_many_developers.mdwn @@ -20,6 +20,16 @@ handful helps with [[Debian GNU/Hurd|hurd/running/debian]] and developers are still available for answering technical questions, but are not participating in the current development anymore. +In the past (that is, a lot of years ago), the FSF did pay a few developers for +working full time on the GNU Hurd. But that was for a limited amount of time +only, and evidently, it was too little for getting the system into a +competitive state. Nowadays, it's only unpaid and free-time volunteers' work. + +In contrast to the Linux kernel, there is no industry involvement in +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. + # Why So Few? @@ -34,6 +44,14 @@ involvement a waste of time. This latter point is invalid, of course, as learning can never be a waste of time. The same holds for the [[challenges]] raised by the GNU Hurd -- we can only learn and improve upon working on them. +For likely the same reasons there is no industry interest in the GNU Hurd: its +advantages are too abstract and incomplete for being of interest there. + +As for the scientific sector, the GNU Hurd projects was rather about *using* a +[[microkernel]] intead of doing research on them, for example. But, there have +been some projects and theses done, and some scientific papers published on GNU +Hurd topics, and we're generally very interested in further such projects. + # Attracting New Faces |