Hi Liam, I wasn’t around when this happened, but often when packages join GNU there isn’t much of a story to be told.
Guix clearly fits into the bigger picture painted by GNU. One of the core ideas of GNU is to give users more freedom and the tools to meaningfully exercise that freedom. The Hurd, for example, does this by putting more parts of the operating system under the control of regular users, even on shared systems. The super user is no longer as important as on other systems. With Guix users gain the freedom to install their own package variants, freeing them from arbitrary restrictions of system administrators. Again, the need for a super user is reduced. Users also gain practical software freedom in that they can easily access the sources of software they have installed and replace a package with a variant of their own. It is only fitting that Guix is part of GNU. -- Ricardo GPG: BCA6 89B6 3655 3801 C3C6 2150 197A 5888 235F ACAC https://elephly.net
