Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

[Ruben Safir]

On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:25:33PM -0500, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Thought experiment: what would GNU be if all of its packages
>    stopped developing?  Dead, right?
> 
> Software that can be run, studied, redistributed, and modified is in a
> state that is strarkly different than matter that is decaying in an
> irreversiable chemical reaction -- i.e. death.
> 
> So lets not call software for dead, or alive.  Getting a program
> running again is quite possible, but a dead chicken quite the
> opposite.


If the point of GNU is to create a matrix for evaluation project
development and OS developed, honestly, we would be better off
developing AI tools to accomplish that.

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or conservative way to pick up the garbage.  This is largely true


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