GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
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GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
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Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
#2As someone who shares beliefs with FSF's ideals, reading this rant makes me think that maybe there's a chance to bring up another movement with the relative same ideals as Free Software but have a different type of leadership.
Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
#3I made a few vague observations based on comments scattered around the web and this rant just made me want to write them down.
* GNU leadership seemed very stubborn from the beginning.
* GNU software is really great.
* Gnome is the new GNU.
I wish they wouldn't lose more momentum or the wide variety of software they write and maintain will suffer, too.
Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
#4As someone who shares beliefs with FSF's ideals, reading this rant makes me think that maybe there's a chance to bring up another movement with the relative same ideals as Free Software but have a different type of leadership.
why bringing something up? [1]
just fork, code and... maybe make profit. [2]
[2] http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/A_Brief_History_of_Red_H...
Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
#5As someone who shares beliefs with FSF's ideals, reading this rant makes me think that maybe there's a chance to bring up another movement with the relative same ideals as Free Software but have a different type of leadership.
Doesn't the open source movement overlap quite heavily with the ideals of free software? I know there are also significant differences, specially the tolerance of proprietary code.
I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, just honestly curious why you think a 3rd alternative would bring change in any meaningful way. We have enough fragmentation as things stand.
Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
#6Why is Stallman still BDFL if he hasn't contributed a meaningful amount of code in years? Let him be the spokesperson so he gets the attention he desperately needs and leave the coding standards to people who code.
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Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
#8As someone who shares beliefs with FSF's ideals, reading this rant makes me think that maybe there's a chance to bring up another movement with the relative same ideals as Free Software but have a different type of leadership.
Doesn't the open source movement overlap quite heavily with the ideals of free software? I know there are also significant differences, specially the tolerance of proprietary code. I'm not trying to start a flamewar here, just honestly curious why you think a 3rd alternative would bring change in any meaningful way. We have enough fragmentation as things stand.
They do overlap, but Open Source Initiative doesn't care at all about users' freedoms, which I personally believe to be very important.
Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
#9Why is Stallman still BDFL if he hasn't contributed a meaningful amount of code in years? Let him be the spokesperson so he gets the attention he desperately needs and leave the coding standards to people who code.
The FSF isn't about coding standards, its foremost about moral and ethical standards.
Edit: Oops! You mean BFDL for GNU, as compared to the FSF. That's a good question - should Stallman relinquish GNU leadership? What is the replacement plan should something happen to him?
I don't think that recent hands-on code experience necessarily plays a role in either case.
Re: GNU sed 4.2.2 released, maintainer resigns
#10As someone who shares beliefs with FSF's ideals, reading this rant makes me think that maybe there's a chance to bring up another movement with the relative same ideals as Free Software but have a different type of leadership.
why bringing something up? [1] just fork, code and... maybe make profit. [2] [1] http://xkcd.com/927/ [2] http://www.techotopia.com/index.php/A_Brief_History_of_Red_H...
Or Ubuntu? ;)