Alexandre François Garreau, le ven. 21 févr. 2020 11:59:42 +0100, a ecrit: > Le jeudi 20 février 2020, 18:39:52 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit : > > Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 20 févr. 2020 12:32:16 -0500, a ecrit: > > > 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. > > So when measuring we should only dare to measure GNU stuff in comparison > with other software projects and platforms. Very interesting.
I never said you should *only* do that. I just said it is a comparison worth making, because it *does* have an impact on what platform people find about, and thus where they get ideas. > > 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. > > That’s a reasonable fear, so that should be what should have been measured > in the metrics discussed in this thread. But how can you measure *that*? Samuel
