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My friend Daniel did not know what Esperanto is.I did not know what The Hurd is.
The greatest irony in our mutual lack of knowledge is the fact that the famous liberal, George Soros, is a native speaker of Esperanto and that Daniel, being a really big liberal, didn't realize this. (Of course, Daniel didn't know what Esperanto is!!)
Of almost equal irony is the fact that I, being the super nerd that I am, didn't know about the GNU Hurd. That is a pretty preposterous thing there. (Both what the GNU Hurd is and that I didn't know about it!!)
The strange truth is that they are both somewhat "artifical constructs" designed to be the "utopian" alternative for the real world alternatives.
If you put "Esperanto" and The "GNU Hurd" in a cage match, who would win?
"Bill O'Reilly is convinced that George Soros is the anti-christ"
- Daniel
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No Contest! Esperanto would win, hands-down. (Unlike HURD, it actually works). And it's in practical, daily use by aprox. 2 million proficient speakers, who could care less about detracters who claim otherwise.
In fact, in the history of constructed or international auxiliary languages, Esperanto's development rather interestingly parallels that of (GNU) Linux. It was launched as a distributed project, under the leadership of a "benevolent dictator" initiator (who explicitly resigned his "ownership" of the project). And it was explicitly based on principles proven under conditions of actual use, rather than on theoretical ideas that were found unsatisfactory in real-life experience.
Etc, etc, etc...
Ya, the Hurd is pretty much not used.
Linux (and a lot of the GNU's software) is very heavily used though.
Linux is a titan next to the GNU Hurd or Esperanto....
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