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XKCD's Comic About OSes Is Hilarious, Predicts Launch Date of GNU Hurd 1.0

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The XKCD webcomics are funny because they are usually right on the money, with just a side dish of ridiculousness. The latest one is called Operating Systems and encompasses everything that is done wrong in this world, with just a single drawing and small, smart text about Richard Stallman.

It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future, Niels Bohr once said, and it seems to be true. No matter how fantastic our predictions are, the future always seems to invalidate them one way or another. The same could be said about the operating systems in the past 30 years. No one could predict what happens with Windows and Linux.

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Comments (6)

JaseP ·
The article gets the mouse-over wrong... It isn't a survivor poking through the ruins finding a "single" picture of Richard Stallman,... It's a "singed" picture of Richard Stallman...
ljmp ·
Minor reporting issue... I thought the XKCD comic was awesome.
JaseP ·
"Singed" Richard Stallman picture is funnier than "single" Richard Stallman pictue...
rnturn ·
@jdixon: Really... they fixed the "delta time" problem back before Y2K so what's stopping 'em? (Sort of disclaimer: I've got a friend who still does VMS consulting. And seems to be making a comfortable living at it.)
gus3 ·
I know a guy who runs VMS on his Alpha at home.

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