* Carlos O'Donell <car...@systemhalted.org> [2019-10-22 10:38]: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:21 AM Ruben Safir <ru...@mrbrklyn.com> wrote: > > > > On 10/22/19 4:31 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > > That is a different organization model. > > > > > > Yeah, I'm not interested in anything that reduces RMS's influence and > > control of GNU at this point. I think he has been abused and I just > > don't carer anymore. If you don't like how he does things, I would > > suggest you find other organizations or project to work on. > > I appreciate your perspective where a single leader handles the entire > project. Do you have an opinion on how a project continues beyond the > original leader? Does someone new have to be nominated?
I do not see that as "single leader". I do not see Dr. Richard Stallman as "leader" at all. I see him as ultimate servant, a person working in the service of another, who teaches other people how to work in the service of another. Numerous people are maintaining GNU software packages and they pretty much decide how contributions are accepted and what is to be implemented. Thus the hierarchy already exists. Projects are served with web hosting, support, money for distribution of software, promotion, donations, awards, etc. And there are so many other people who are teaching free software philosophy in various organizations. They are not in hierarchy, need not be, but they are all running their programs on free software philosophy. I am sorry for not naming them at this point. There are those in South America, in Spain I think, there are Europeans, there is in India, and there are private companies promoting free software philosophy. That is how leaders shall behave. He has laid out the foundation first in the free software philosophy, second in the establishment of the Free Software Foundation. One flaw that I see is that Free Software Foundation is missing in its Articles of Incorporation a firm commitment to free software philosophy, so the FSF depends on its members and management to be loyal to the free software philosophy. GNU Project can continue without original leader for as long as its maintainers stick to free software philosophy as written by Dr. Richard Stallman. -- Thanks, Jean Louis
