On Sun, 1 Jun 2014, Warner Losh wrote:

> Of course, it should be noted that the GNU project was totally incapable
> of producing a working kernel… They did decent clones of user land stuff,
> but Hurd was a total dead end...

The HURD isn't even a joke, it's just a punch line...

That said, to me with the userland, BSD gets it right, and GNU is a joke - 
slow and bloated.  You know how Microsoft is known for "embrace, extend 
and exterminate" ?  GNU does the same damn thing.