From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Subject: Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:25:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87lftsp7an.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87ftk4hbhu.fsf@gnu.org> <87v9swwp1v.fsf@e6230.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58026) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iIgsE-0002S2-6g for Guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 10 Oct 2019 18:25:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87v9swwp1v.fsf@e6230.localdomain> (Mikhail Kryshen's message of "Thu, 10 Oct 2019 19:19:56 +0300") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mikhail Kryshen Cc: Guix-devel , GNU Guix maintainers Hi Mikhail, Mikhail Kryshen skribis: > I'm deeply disappointed to see this. I always thought that the free > software community have strong and independent culture, and it's very > sad to see GNU maintainers, for whose work I have great respect, fall > for the moral panic that is being spread by news and social media [...] > This leads to dissolution of the free software culture and its > ethical values with the influence of media and corporations that are > hostile towards software freedom. I respectfully think that your interpretation is incorrect. Keep in mind that each of the signatories has typically more than 10 years of experience as developer or maintainer of GNU (more than that for some.) They have dedicated a large part of their life to that, and they have worked a lot with GNU and RMS. So it really isn=E2=80=99t about = what =E2=80=9Cthe media=E2=80=9D said last week or the week before. Perhaps you find our decision hard to understand, or perhaps you disagree with it, but remember that we have a different perspective. RMS created GNU, but GNU has long expanded beyond RMS, and free software has expanded way beyond GNU, too. We must keep it striving and reach out to those who=E2=80=99ve not yet joined us to share the software! Ludo=E2=80=99.