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

[Pjotr Prins]

Food for thought, perhaps, is that GNU is toxic for industry. That can
be good and bad :). I actually like it that industry stays away and we
can be our own.

Pj.

On Mon, Jan 27, 2025 at 08:34:51PM +0100, Simon Tournier wrote:
> Hi Maxim,
> 
> On Sun, 15 Dec 2024 at 16:55, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> > I'm late to the party but I thought I'd voice my feeling as I read this,
> > catching up slack on the ML.  I find the assertions, or more
> > specifically, the level of assertiveness, that GNU is or has been a net
> > negative for GNU a pretty simplified world view, at least from my
> > perspective.
> 
> I’m even later. :-)
> 
> Well, from my point of the view, the question is not about the past of
> GNU but about its future.  It appears to me a sane question: What is GNU
> doing today in order to prepare its future?  In this post, I explore the
> question and try to pave one among many others potential ways:
> 
>     https://simon.tournier.info/posts/2024-11-01-visiting-future-gnu.html
> 
> If we are frank about the current governance situation and nothing is
> done in the coming years, then for sure, in the near* future GNU will be
> some yet another awesome project that remains only as one data point in
> the Great History.
> 
> *near future: Say the bus factor – I wish all the best to Richard
>     Stallman –: as far as I know, Richard is a regular human and GNU as
>     it is today will not survive Richard’s /retirement/. Again, I wish
>     all the best to Richard!
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> simon
> 
> PS: I’ve not missed Ricardo’s question [1] but still in draft state. :-)
> 
> 1: Re: (unrelated and off-topics) Visiting a future of GNU
> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
> Fri, 01 Nov 2024 14:53:56 +0100
> id:87y123hxfv.fsf@elephly.net
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2024-11
> https://yhetil.org/guix/87y123hxfv.fsf@elephly.net
> 

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