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| DATE | 2020-02-20 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] State of the GNUnion 2020
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On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 06:39:52PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 20 f??vr. 2020 12:32:16 -0500, a ecrit:
> > > > Our concern is that at some point GNU may be just completely unknown
> > > > to free software enthousiasts. As in, when you'd ask people what free
> > > > software is about, they would answer "ah, yes, the stuff on github,
> > > > right".
> > >
> > > Okay, sure. But going back to Eli's point, the development activity of
> > > individual projects is determined by individual project's members, and is
> > > rarely affected by the actions of the leadership.
> >
> > The activity by itself, yes, but the choice of where to start a new
> > project, or starting contributing an existing project, leadership does
> > have a lot of importance.
> >
> > How does that have to do with the overall project leadership, which
> > hasn't changed significantly over the years, and yet had significant
> > growth in new projects for several decades (if we take the graphs by
> > Wingo at face value).
>
> "Significant growth" is very little compared to the huge growth that can
> be seen on other platforms.
Non-sense. This is a platform to gaurantee the public has a Free System
to choose from. It is not to be measured feature by feature by grossly
over built systems which spinning insecure parts in every direction.
The priority here not to build the best facebook ap. It is to build a
system that respects the user, user privacy and freedom.
>
> I'm not saying that GNU will necessarily stop growing and decline. What
> I'm afraid is that it might just become insignificant compared to
> others, and thus its voice for the 4 freedoms become less and less
> heard.
>
> Samuel
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