You always have a problem with warping facts. He was referring only to the free-software Mach kernel (not GPL, made by Carnegie-Mellon as a research project), and that was in OS X 10.0, which was pretty bad. Mach is still the reason for the performance problems I mentioned. Torvalds also personally prefers big, fast monolithic kernels as opposed to microkernels as Mach is. He even had a famous argument with the author of Minix over this design philosophy difference.
Personally, I can see both sides to the debate. Monolithic kernels are faster, but they're harder to debug, harder to port and inherently less robust. The big picture is that Mach made it easier for Apple to smoothly transition to Intel.
If you weren't so infatuated with foreigners and leftists
I'm infatuated with good software. You are the only one on this board infatuated with these people. You are the one who usually brings them up, as you did in your first post to this thread. Nobody had even discussed Torvalds or Stallman on this thread until that.
Obviously your beloved free software isn't as magical and wonderful as you claimed.
You are the one who usually brings them up, as you did in your first post to this thread. Nobody had even discussed Torvalds or Stallman on this thread until that.
The article that spawned this thread mentions him extensively. You can try to hide the facts all you want but "the father of free software" is a green party leftist nutjob, and the more people who know it the better.