Am Samstag, 28. November 2009 00:48:26 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: > Sure, I don't question the need for smart developers... What I'm saying > is that (unlike switching microkernels), the existing implementation > requires a lot of less challenging work also -- it's just not true that > we don't need many developers.
And that's why I started this thread.
I write the Month Of The Hurd, because I want to make the Hurd more appealing
to general users.
Maybe some of the interested people will be the really smart developers, but
most will be general users and "normal" developers. And I believe that these
are the majority of the people who are important to the Hurd (if only because
they are the majority of people in general). Once the basic foundation of the
Hurd matures, it will be far easier to go into very low-level stuff for general
desktop computing, and what good is it to write a great system and then
attract only people who don't really benefit from that, because they could do
the low-level almost as easily in Linux?
The Hurd opens up options, not only to excellent developers but also to all
those people who are very good game designers, very good documenters, very
good community managers, etc.
Giving all these people additional options means zip (at least from the view
of society in general), if they never find the Hurd.
And the learning curve of the Hurd - including closing in on its internals
step by step - is an important part of that. When someone who finds the Hurd
can easily see what he can do (and get a glimpse of the full potential), he's
far more likely to tell others about that. If on the other hand most people
aren't able to utilize the power of the Hurd in any way, they won't tell
others how great the Hurd is. And one of those who then doesn't learn about
the Hurd might be one of the excellent programmers who are needed for the
delicate work.
And that this isn't consensus in here shows me, that the decision to keep this
thread in bug-hurd was right. More: The thread was needed badly.
Best wishes,
Arne
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