Re: design goals vs mechanisms

[Alfred M\. Szmidt]

   You may also want to check out what the plans of the FSF with the
   Hurd were around about 2000/2001.  There was a time where the Hurd
   apparently was close to being stomped into the ground for good,
   officially.  I do not remember what made us panic, but there was an
   announcement or a quote from a public speech RMS gave that seemed
   to prepare the ground for declaring Linux the official kernel of
   the GNU system.

You mean the plans of making a release of the GNU system, using the
Hurd, and the Hurd working reliably?  I.e. totally the opposite
picture that you give!

[0]: www.gnu.org/gnu/linux-and-gnu.html