Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

[DJ Delorie]

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> * DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> [2020-02-20 07:09]:
>> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
>> > * DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> [2020-02-19 21:01]:
>> >> 
>> >> "Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)" <936-846-2769@kylheku.com> 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.