Re: State of the GNUnion 2020
DJ Delorie <[email protected]>
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Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes: > * DJ Delorie <[email protected]> [2020-02-20 07:09]: >> Jean Louis <[email protected]> writes: >> > * DJ Delorie <[email protected]> [2020-02-19 21:01]: >> >> >> >> "Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)" <[email protected]> writes: >> >> > On 2020-02-17 12:37, Andy Wingo wrote: >> >> >> Thought experiment: what would GNU be if all of its packages stopped >> >> >> developing? Dead, right? >> >> > >> >> > The immediate effect would become more of a stable base for the vast >> >> > amount of material that depends on it. >> >> >> >> For about a month or so, until the next bug, security problem, or >> >> missing feature were reported... then people would switch to whatever >> >> software was responsive to these problems. If GNU doesn't respond, >> >> someone will eventually fork the software (because they can :) and GNU >> >> would lose users. >> > >> > When people continue developing free software it is a win, not loss. >> >> The question wasn't "what would free software be?" it was "what would >> GNU be?" > > That is matter of view point. No, that's a matter of what was written by Andy Wingo, quoted above. > You have the view point that if there are free software developers and > free software which is not GNU, that it is competition to GNU. There is competition for volunteers at least.