The political decision IS the best technical decision [LWN.net]

The political decision IS the best technical decision

Posted Mar 13, 2008 2:15 UTC (Thu) by jmorris42 (subscriber, #2203)
Parent article: Emacs chooses Bazaar

Remember that the goal of the GNU Project is to (someday... insert HURD joke here) give birth
to GNU.  And a GNU System will look a whole lot more like a system if all or most of it uses a
common version control system.  So for Emacs, viewed seperately, it might be seen as a
political decision yet from the pov of the GNU Project as a whole picking the GNU version
control system makes perfect technical sense as well.

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The political decision IS the best technical decision

Posted Mar 13, 2008 22:00 UTC (Thu) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I don't see anything technical in your explanation. If there's a goal to create a system using only GNU tools, that's a political goal, not a technical one.

Is it really the goal of the GNU project to give birth to GNU (The GNU System)?. I thought Stallman announced that goal met long ago (with the Linux kernel being the kernel of the GNU system).