It is not harmful if Guix remains free software, how it can be? It is only harmful for Guix.
It was not my decision, it is theirs. On October 10, 2019 11:39:42 AM UTC, Dmitry Alexandrov <321...@gmail.com> wrote: >Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote: >> * Alexander Vdolainen <a...@vapaa.xyz> [2019-10-09 23:13]: >> - and then within that group there is now a hostile takeover group of >people starting with Ludovic Courtès and his "fellows" where none of >them could answer my email to provide me with the facts about their >statement. They are behaving against established implicit and explicit >GNU guidelines, and so far nobody from FSF is enforcing any policy >against them. They are danger to GNU project. >> >> My solution would be radical and simple: ask them to refrain damaging >GNU project, or fork their software, and expell them from GNU project. >> >> AS SIMPLE AS THAT. > >Wow! Ease off a bit! > >You might not noticed that, but today Guix is the most vivid part of >GNU. And I could not image an action, that might cause more damage to >GNU project, than urging Guix lead developers to leave. Even if you >believe that forking software over political discord is good thing to >do (despite it does not align well with the rest of your message), by >all means, you would not able to outcompete them, so it would simply >ended in Guix out of GNU. So it even more harmful than urging RMS to >leave. After all, RMS is mortal and, alas, will leave us and GNU >sooner or later, while Guix is not necessary.
