Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

[Richard Stallman]

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > When you say "*this* is GNU", you always carry the implication that
  > "everything else is not GNU". You might say that this is not what you
  > mean -- but it is how people will read it.

Indeed, that's what I want to avoid.

  >   The Guix guys are effectively doing
  > > that in my opinion and I think it's great.  Now, instead of us saying
  > > "these are the strictly necessary components", we're saying "here is,
  > > to us, an excellent way to put together the GNU system"

  > I very much like your take on this :-) It highlights the fact that GNU
  > is very much capable of producing a compelling operating system, but
  > avoids the trap of inadvertantly claiming exclusiveness or superiority
  > over other GNU variants :-)

I too look at it this way.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation
51 Franklin St
Boston MA 02110
USA
www.fsf.org  www.gnu.org
Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software.
  Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.