Le 29/03/2021 à 11:14, Alessandro Vesely via Dng a écrit : > On Fri 26/Mar/2021 22:58:39 +0100 Riccardo Mottola wrote: >> I want politics out of free software. >> [...] >> >> Remember how many voices there were back then against "evil >> Microsoft" and IE6? >> >> But how many raise their voices today against Chrome? > > > And IBM before M$... > > >> Two weights, two measures. > > > If you mean Google (or just Chrome) is enjoying undue community favor, > I disagree. Google's curve is still growing and the handover to the > next actor is not yet on sight, but some marks are visible. For one, > Google doesn't appear among FSF's patrons after 2016[*]. By now, they > reached the evil's side. Opposing voices are raising, and I look > forward for a GNU SmartOS. > > If you look at the tangent envelope of all those curves, you see the > growth of software is very strong. It is certainly an economic > question. How, then, could you keep politics off? Free software > poses political problems. These problems are different from those of > the previous industrial revolution, but they are still political > problems.
The war is ragin on the GCC devel list. Someone even suggested to "cut the communication channel between GCC and GNU" ! _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
