On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:07:28 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
If I understood correctly, Daniel Robbins is currently writing a new
version of portage. My feeling is that we need experienced hackers
on
this project. And another way to launch such a project could be to
use
an existing distro. Nobody asked for that, but my dream is to
initiate a
dialogue between Daniel and RMS
I don't recognize the name, but I could talk with him if that is
useful. First, however, I need to know what the starting situation
is. What is his attitude towards GNU and towards the free software
movement?
The starting situation is probably not easy but I am optimistic by
nature :) I think that he doesn't see in *GNU* the whole system, yet.
And he seems more close to the open source camp than the free software
movement. That said, I believe in your capacity to convince people and
change History! And I believe in the GNU capacity to attract the best
free software hackers, especially when they built "human" projects that
are widely used (Google is using portage for its "Chrome OS" project").
Daniel has a strong experience in free software projects, he is a great
leader that can get the best from others.
I can't talk for him but I am pretty sure he values both GNU and the
free software movement. As French, I discovered Funtoo GNU/Linux through
the Funtoo-Quebec community, which is strongly supportive to Software
Freedom. People who have made Funtoo-Quebec are friends with him. And
Funtoo-Quebec became the official support of Funtoo for French speaking
people.
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