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I feel like this comment was a sarcastic joke and people didn't pick it up.^^ Especially after the Hurd line, this has to be a joke.
No, this is a response to the mass adoption of systemd by Linux and the Age Verification Law.
It's GNU philosophy or owning a compromised OS.
But Hurd is too far behind and will probably never be a real alternative to Linux. Also the Linux Kernel is not what adopts the Age Verification, its the distribution. Therefore instead changing the Kernel, they just need to change on the distribution what they do not like. Or create the same distribution with Linux, they would create with GNU Hurd.