Re^3: Nobody Expects the Agile Imposition (Part VI): Architecture

[tilly]

It is worth noting that I personally know the original GNU architect, and he claims that he thought at the time that the easiest way forward was to build on top of BSD. But RMS chose Mach, in part because academia was very fond of microkernels at that point.

He says that RMS has acknowledged that this decision was a mistake.