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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 09:55:31AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Dmitry Gutov, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 10:43:47 +0200, a ecrit:
> > On 20.02.2020 6:08, DJ Delorie wrote:
> > > There are a lot of projects that are free software but not GNU. If
> > > people choose to work on those projects instead of GNU, GNU loses, even
> > > if free software wins.
> >
> > Well, this is disappointing.
> >
> > I figured your "collaborates with the broader free software community" item
> > was about how non-GNU free software are a "good thing" still (e.g. LLVM has
> > the right to exist, and we should interface with it properly as well), but
> > apparently not.
>
> I believe you are misinterpreting his words.
>
> Our concern is that at some point GNU may be just completely unknown
> to free software enthousiasts.
It will if you take over,
as long as RMS is still out there pitching the four freedoms, it never
will.
You are so FUCKING CONFUSED.
The audience for GNU is not the hacking community, but the public at
large.
> As in, when you'd ask people what free
> software is about, they would answer "ah, yes, the stuff on github,
> right".
>
> Sure, seeing free software being developped outside GNU is a great
> achievement of the GNU project: the goal outpassed the only context of
> the GNU project. But the GNU project being less and less known is not
> good news for the GNU project by itself. To avoid that, you can't just
> say that the existing software can just be maintained and does not need
> new development. To keep a strain of new incoming contributors, you
> need new features (thus new releases), new ideas, new projects. Just
> maintaining old stuff isn't appaling for newcomers.
>
> Samuel
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