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| DATE | 2020-02-25 |
| FROM | Dmitry Gutov
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] State of the GNUnion 2020
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On 25.02.2020 3:58, Alexandre François Garreau wrote:
>> Regarding punishing repeat offenders anyway, as we've seen just
>> recently, you can't censor a determined individual on a public mailing
>> list anyway. Limit their audience, sure, but banning them outright seems
>> impossible. And I can hardly see the whole GNU project migrating off
>> mailing lists.
>
> If new younger people come in charge and want to succeed to “compete” with
> github, gitlab, etc. I can see how they’d like to replace mailing-lists
> with gitlab or other SaaSS-like web software…
They would replace it with Discourse, which is web-based, but also Free
Software. I personally would probably endorse that, but it indeed needs
a browser to use. Or specialized clients using the web API, etc.
> You might think support for proprietary OSes and “endorsement” of them (of
> proprietary software in general, non-endorsement of the strict GNU
> philosophy (which isn’t even actually so well described in the social
> contract as to imply that proprietary software, should, indeed, stop to
> exist, I believe)) are not anyhow related… but actually to support
> something, you need to test it, to use it, and to know how good it is in
> comparision with other similar uses on the same platform. That’s why
> emacs OS X port is known to be pretty good. There are people using it.
It's actually the worst port among the main three, AFAIK. Not to say
it's bad (it's usable, and it's fairly popular), but we collectively
have less macOS knowledge, and Apple liked to shake things up in its
releases.
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