LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 7, 2020 13:02 UTC (Tue) by civodul (guest, #58311)
In reply to: LWN's 2020 vision by ceplm
Parent article: LWN's 2020 vision

> the GNU Project must decide whether it wants really work for the freedom in the software area [...], or whether it wants to be just a fan club of RMS. So far, it was more the latter, I am afraid.

The "fan club" bit certainly exists, but it's always existed next to a large group of dedicated people working on GNU as a tool for user freedom. The efforts Corbet links to in the article also show that some of us want GNU to go beyond that one-person leadership.

LWN's 2020 vision

Posted Jan 10, 2020 17:01 UTC (Fri) by zimoun (guest, #136589) [Link]

Moreover, these words in the article are not really accurate:

> it still sometimes seems like GNU is stuck trying to reproduce the Unix workstations of the 1980s

when one knows how GNU Guix is shifting the paradigm of distros!