Re: A few questions: Libre SoC, website, Rust

[Samuel Thibault]

Joshua Branson, le mar. 18 août 2020 10:25:17 -0400, a ecrit:
> Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org> writes:
> > Jan Wielkiewicz, le dim. 16 août 2020 21:00:26 +0200, a ecrit:
> >> > More than a grant, it's people that we would need (yes, a grant could
> >> > help here but in the end it's people that matter).
> >> I believe the website could help here, explanation below.
> 
> May I suggest we make a business out of the GNU/Hurd?

I don't think we really can, for various reasons I don't really have
time to explain in details, but basically we can't claim the GNU/Hurd is
actually secure (even if the principles are really good for security,
AFAIK nobody has made an actual security review over the code), it is
slower than Linux, it doesn't support SMP yet, etc. I don't see how
we could be competitive with anything that is currently on the market
already.

> I'm not proposing that I own the project or
> the direction the GNU/Hurd takes.  Samuel is our fearless leader!

I'm not, actually.
(I'm not even a Hurd maintainer officially)

Note that I'm really talking about the *lead* part, not the maintenance
part.

Samuel