The complaints I've had is that GitHub as a development platform - making commits, pull requests, keeping track of issues etc - doesn't work very well at all. It's not even close, not for something like the kernel. It's much too limited.

I'm basically a very lazy person who likes to get credit for things other people actually do.

In short: just say NO TO DRUGS, and maybe you won't end up like the Hurd people.

It just makes it even harder for people to even approach the (open source) side, when they then end up having to worry about public humiliation.

In science, the whole system builds on people looking at other people's results and building on top of them. In witchcraft, somebody had a small secret and guarded it - but never allowed others to really understand it and build on it. Traditional software is like witchcraft. In history, witchcraft just died out. The same will happen in software. When problems get serious enough, you can't have one person or one company guarding their secrets. You have to have everybody share in the knowledge.

I like offending people, because I think people who get offended should be offended.

The idea of abstracting away the one thing that must be blindingly fast, the kernel, is inherently counter productive.