Gabriel Wicki <[email protected]> writes:
But this "we're not really GNU because it's not cool anymore"
sprinkled
with "look how much better we are because we do consensus and so
much
faster than *they* do" is just unbearable. I guess there could
be good
reasons why people want to leave GNU, but as long as these are
not even
brought up it is just poison to pester people about the use of
`GNU
Guix' as the name (happened to me by at least 4 individuals wrt
GCD007)
or stating the idea that GNU policies could be binding to Guix.
This is your rather uncharitable interpretation, it's not fact.
It bothers me on a personal level that you take the time to write
things like this as if they were fact, and project them onto us
who are implementing a substantive part of what GNU effectively
is.
I feel that many people seem to have a strange misunderstanding of
GNU around here. It has never been much of a project in any
common sense of the word. Many of us old timers have been
involved with GNU for several years and repeatedly struggled with
the implications that this conveniently amorphous entity has,
immune to implementation and subject to unilateral. (For example,
it's not our fault that some people insist on keeping certain GNU
mailing lists private.)
It's bizarre to be faulted for attempting to do better in terms of
accountability and transparency. Perhaps Ludo should have become
benevolent dictator instead as it is so common in the world of
free software?
--
Ricardo
