Re: Guix (and Guile's) promise, and how to (hopefully) get there

[Andy Tai <atai@atai.org>]

With due respect, I disagree with that.

Guix recent years has seen growing interests and contributions, so
many patches that the they are not reviewed or processed in a timely
manner.   This is with affiliation with GNU.  I contributed to Guix
because it is GNU.

In fact I just contact the FSF about contribution to Guix with small
donations periodically. I am in the US and financially contribution to
the FSF is tax deductible and the FSF has a better track record of
efficient use of contributions than most other non profits (as
regulated by the US Government Internal Revenue Service).  Financially
many free software nonproifts are having issues (per recent article in
lwn.net) and the FSF is in better shape than these (with questions on
their abilities to raise income and expenses) in that article.  So it
is not clear where the FSF lost its financial capital.

So my observation is inconsistent with what Juliana wrote in this part.

On Sat, Oct 26, 2024 Juliana Sims wrote:
>
> ...Guix should break with GNU and the FSF. Moreso the FSF, but the two
> are irrevocably intertwined in the public conscious -- which is the
> primary reason Guix needs to break away. To avoid relitigating what has
> been litigated more than sufficiently already, the FSF made a bad
> political move that has destroyed its social capital and, as a
> side-effect, its financial capital as well. Even if it can help us with
> funding, it shouldn't.
>
> I think so. As I noted above, if we break with GNU, I am highly
> confident we will see an uptick in new contributors, at least some of
> whom can help there.