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

Posted by thesilviu on Apr 6, 2015 10:50 AM EDT
Softpedia; By Silviu Stahie
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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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