Re: design goals vs mechanisms

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   When I came to the Hurd in 1997, it was essentially dead.  It was
   not yet officially declared death, but it was pretty close.

You must have a skewed view of history, the Hurd was no where near
`essentially dead' in 1997.  If anything it is essentially dead today,
and was live and kicking in 1997, nobody knows what to work on, the
Hurd, the Hurd on L4, the Hurd on L4.sec, the Hurd on EROS, the Hurd
on FOO.  During the past 5 years the Hurd has seen about as many
changes that it saw during 1996.  For the record, you didn't
contribute a single line until 1999.

Year - amount of ChangeLog entries
1994 - 400
1995 - 640
1996 - 1000
1997 - 400
1998 - 140
1999 - 500
2000 - 160
2001 - 270
2002 - 500
2003 - 54
2004 - 41
2005 - 54