Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-11-01 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le dimanche 27 octobre 2019, 18:55:59 CET Alfred M. Szmidt a écrit : > that > "stubborn governance" is what is needed to keep things free. If > anything, we should have even more stubborn goverance -- and that can > only be done by a trusted group of people that are willing to uphold > the values

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-29 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Jean Louis wrote: > * Florian Weimer [2019-10-24 16:32]: >> * Alfred M. Szmidt: >> >> > Debian renegaded on their goal of being a 100% free software system, they >> > now include non-free software. That is the danger, and it is very much >> > real. >> >> And GNU comes with non-free documenta

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-29 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Florian Weimer wrote: > * Alfred M. Szmidt: >> Debian renegaded on their goal of being a 100% free software system, they >> now include non-free software. > > And GNU comes with non-free documentation. He-he. Could you please remind us, under what terms Debian Wiki is distributed? signature.a

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jean Louis: > * Samuel Thibault [2019-10-27 16:33]: >> Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 13:56:00 -0400, a ecrit: >> > we have participants that clearly do not agree with the GNU projects >> > stance on an issue. >> > >> > This shows the error quite clearly in why having the community >>

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Andreas Enge
Hello Mark, thanks for pointing out this large collection of pages to read! Indeed there is very little in terms of structure, but still a few gems that we should reference. I would like to additonally read some external document, the Debian Social Contract. Debian is clearly very successful as a

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Debian's social contract does define it in a different way than yours, yes. And that is what the commmunity enforced, and it did not fail to do so: the main Debian archive only contains free software and some references to non-free software. That is what was promised, and that is wha

Re: Need of ‘stubborn governance’ (was: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization)

2019-10-28 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Excuse me, do GNU actually have precedents when the ‘stubborn governance’ was proved to be needed to keep things free? Readline, Objective-C backend, not allowing propietery hackery with GCC, GPLv3 and Tivioization, Emacs and plugins, come to mind. Fighting non-free software is always a

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Samuel Thibault [2019-10-24 16:11]: > Agreed! > > And that is where the social contract can help. While the Debian one > does explicitly say that it wants to let Debian work also with non-free > software, the GNU one can explicitly say that GNU contains only 100% > purely free software, and doe

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Ruben Safir [2019-10-22 12:42]: > Appointment has always worked. It is a volunteer organization, so your > choices are usually thin. If a project is of interest, them RMS can > appoint someone, as he does now. And when he wants to step down he can > appoint someone to take over his roles, alt

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Samuel Thibault [2019-10-27 16:33]: > Then we can write that in a GNU social contract, instead of having to > rely on stubborn governance. Stubborn governance or however you name it is still successful governance. -- Thanks, Jean Louis P.S. I would like that you give facts and not generaliza

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Samuel Thibault [2019-10-27 16:33]: > Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 13:56:00 -0400, a ecrit: > > we have participants that clearly do not agree with the GNU projects > > stance on an issue. > > > > This shows the error quite clearly in why having the community > > deciding philosophica

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Ruben Safir [2019-10-22 10:18]: > 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

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* František Kučera [2019-10-22 04:44]: > So if this is to have a chance of success, there must be a rigid > (immutable) constitution which guarantees the principles in the long > term. (Sure, immutability has its pitfalls, but if the principles are to > change, it is necessary to come up with a ne

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Florian Weimer [2019-10-24 16:32]: > * Alfred M. Szmidt: > > > Debian renegaded on their goal of being a 100% free software system, > > they now include non-free software. That is the danger, and it is > > very much real. > > And GNU comes with non-free documentation. We are not going to rea

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Mark Wielaard [2019-10-21 20:27]: > I would like to see GNU organized in such a way that GNU volunteers, > who devote so much time and energy to GNU, will be able to grow and > become the next generation of GNU leaders through some kind of > apprenticeship. People should always be on the outlook

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Samuel Thibault [2019-10-24 16:55]: > What is important here is this: > > > And that is the exact type word wiggling that we shouldn't accept > > here, and the exact reason why this project is run the way it is run. > > And that is where a social contract would allow to enforce it, without > t

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-28 Thread Jean Louis
* Carlos O'Donell [2019-10-22 10:38]: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:21 AM Ruben Safir 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

Re: Need of ‘stubborn governance’ (was: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization)

2019-10-28 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
a...@gnu.org (Alfred M. Szmidt) wrote: >> The only way tackle non-free software is to explicitly reject it, at all > times. > >Then we can write that in a GNU social contract, instead of having to rely > on stubborn governance. > > Yet again, you argue that we should have a weaker governa

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> > > Debian renegaded on their goal of being a 100% free software system, > > > they now include non-free software. That is the danger, and it is > > > very much real. > > > > And GNU comes with non-free documentation. We are not going to reach > > agreement on these points any

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> The principles of this project are quite clearly written down, and > http://gnu.org/ contains all of them. If it was clearly written down, we would not need strong governance to enforce it. The governance comes from Chief GNUisance not from the community. That is very much written

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 13:55:59 -0400, a ecrit: > > > The only way tackle non-free software is to explicitly reject it, at > > > all times. > > > > Then we can write that in a GNU social contract, instead of having to > > rely on stubborn governance. > > Yet again, you argue that w

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 13:56:00 -0400, a ecrit: > we have participants that clearly do not agree with the GNU projects > stance on an issue. > > This shows the error quite clearly in why having the community > deciding philosophical topics of the GNU project is a grave danger. No,

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> we have participants that clearly do not agree with the GNU projects > stance on an issue. > > This shows the error quite clearly in why having the community > deciding philosophical topics of the GNU project is a grave danger. No, this shows that the philosophy is not that cl

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> The only way tackle non-free software is to explicitly reject it, at > all times. Then we can write that in a GNU social contract, instead of having to rely on stubborn governance. Yet again, you argue that we should have a weaker governance -- that "stubborn governance" is what is

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 13:30:38 -0400, a ecrit: > The principles of this project are quite clearly written down, and > http://gnu.org/ contains all of them. If it was clearly written down, we would not need strong governance to enforce it. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Samuel Thibault, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 18:23:28 +0100, a ecrit: > Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 13:07:35 -0400, a ecrit: > > > My view is that when I burn a Debian CD, on it there is only free > > > software and links to non-free software (which is *not* on the > > > CD). And that is what t

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
One of the issues we have to face is that Richard sometimes acts in an authoritative kind of way over issues he doesn't have, or the community doesn't give him, authority of. He does have that authority, it has been explained over and over and over again. And that is a problem for eve

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> > > Debian renegaded on their goal of being a 100% free software system, > > > they now include non-free software. > > > > What is called "Debian" does not include the non-free archive, that > > archive is not enabled by default, the user has to make an explicit > > action to en

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
The principles of this project are quite clearly written down, and http://gnu.org/ contains all of them.

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 14:10:46 -0400, a ecrit: > > > we have participants that clearly do not agree with the GNU projects > > > stance on an issue. > > > > > > This shows the error quite clearly in why having the community > > > deciding philosophical topics of the GNU project is

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 13:07:35 -0400, a ecrit: > > My view is that when I burn a Debian CD, on it there is only free > > software and links to non-free software (which is *not* on the > > CD). And that is what the Debian social contract allows. > > That is the view of the GNU proj

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Debian renegaded on their goal of being a 100% free software system, > they now include non-free software. That is the danger, and it is > very much real. And GNU comes with non-free documentation. We are not going to reach agreement on these points any time soon. That is simpl

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> Your disagreement and not getting what you want is not a "problem", > not for 8 years and not for 30 years.. Refusing to call it a problem doesn't mean that it's not a problem. Likewise, saying that it is a problem doesn't mean that it is.

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le dim. 27 oct. 2019 13:07:35 -0400, a ecrit: > > > Debian renegaded on their goal of being a 100% free software system, > > > they now include non-free software. That is the danger, and it is > > > very much real. > > > > And GNU comes with non-free documentation. We are not go

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-27 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Brandon, On Sat, 2019-10-26 at 15:19 +0100, Brandon Invergo wrote: > On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 17:08 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the > > GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it would be > > nice to make it m

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-26 Thread Brandon Invergo
On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 17:08 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote: > In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the > GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it would be > nice to make it more formally so. As I have already described to you and the others elsewhere,

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-25 Thread Samuel Thibault
Mark Wielaard, le ven. 25 oct. 2019 12:20:11 +0200, a ecrit: > Right. I think what is being objected to is a GNU Social Contract that > would contain something like this part of the Debian Social Contract > https://www.debian.org/social_contract > >We acknowledge that some of our users require

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-25 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Thu, 2019-10-24 at 22:50 +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 16:31:41 -0400, a ecrit: > > We don't promote non-free software, we don't host non-free software, > > so clearly things have worked for 30 years where they have not for > > Debian. > > The goals were

Re: Free spyware (was: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization)

2019-10-25 Thread Dmitry Alexandrov
Colby Russell wrote: > consider the case of bona fide spyware that turns out to be released by its > author under GPLv3.  It therefore guarantees your ability to exercise the > four freedoms, but does it actually *respect* the user's freedoms? If besides being shipped under a free licence it is

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 16:31:41 -0400, a ecrit: > > Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 15:33:51 -0400, a ecrit: > > > > > The GNU project is not a porject that is suitable for a bottom-up > > > > > organization -- its mission, and only mission, is to see that the GNU > > > > > s

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 15:33:51 -0400, a ecrit: >> The GNU project is not a porject that is suitable for a bottom-up >> organization -- its mission, and only mission, is to see that the GNU >> system is and keeps being free software. This has been explaine

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Alfred M. Szmidt: > Debian renegaded on their goal of being a 100% free software system, > they now include non-free software. That is the danger, and it is > very much real. And GNU comes with non-free documentation. We are not going to reach agreement on these points any time soon.

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Ruben Safir
On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 10:00:05PM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 15:33:51 -0400, a ecrit: > >> The GNU project is not a porject that is suitable for a bottom-up > >> organization -- its mission, and only mission, is to see that the GNU > >> syste

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Ruben Safir, le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 16:16:23 -0400, a ecrit: > When you want to do something your way and RMS disagrees, that is not a > problem... at least for GNU. It is a problem for GNU. Saying "if you disagree, leave!" is not going to help getting people in. I don't think we want to see a GNU p

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
> The GNU project is not a porject that is suitable for a bottom-up > organization -- its mission, and only mission, is to see that the GNU > system is and keeps being free software. This has been explained > ample of times. I don't see how bottom-up cannot get this. How different

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 15:33:51 -0400, a ecrit: >> The GNU project is not a porject that is suitable for a bottom-up >> organization -- its mission, and only mission, is to see that the GNU >> system is and keeps being free software. This has been explained >> ample

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Alfred M. Szmidt, le jeu. 24 oct. 2019 12:51:35 -0400, a ecrit: > > On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 15:12 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > > >I agree. I think in practice many (most?) maintainers not only agree > > > to > > >uphold the free software values, but also share them. > > > > > > In prac

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Samuel Thibault
Hello, Mostly giving my feedback on the matter as "the Debian guy". František Kučera, le mar. 22 oct. 2019 10:16:05 +0200, a ecrit: > Dne 21. 10. 19 v 17:08 Mark Wielaard napsal(a): > > In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the > > GNU hackers that do the actual work s

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 15:12 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >I agree. I think in practice many (most?) maintainers not only agree to >uphold the free software values, but also share them. > > In practise, we cannot know -- making the assumption is dangerous. It > also e

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Alexandre François Garreau
Le jeudi 24 octobre 2019, 03:55:02 CEST Colby Russell a écrit : > - Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing > > (Note that the latter is actually even more stringent, making GNU/FSF > seem lax by comparison, and all on purely technical grounds; not even a > machine t

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Colby Russell
On 10/23/19 10:19 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: > He was referring to open source software, not Free Software. Yes.  That's obvious.  I'm not sure why you think that's relevant here, unless you think that I'm mistaken about something here.  (I'm not.)  Or you're mistaken about what I actually wrote in my

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-24 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Wed, 2019-10-23 at 15:12 -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: >I agree. I think in practice many (most?) maintainers not only agree to >uphold the free software values, but also share them. > > In practise, we cannot know -- making the assumption is dangerous. It > also excludes people who

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-23 Thread DJ Delorie
Colby Russell writes: > This software might be open source and use the open source development > model, but it won't be free software > > If that's the case, then it has to be true that the four freedoms are > necessary but not sufficient to say that a piece of software is free > software

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-23 Thread Colby Russell
A few months ago, I wrote a post about how sufficient free software / the four freedoms are. On 10/22/19 1:08 PM, DJ Delorie wrote: >> It has already its constitution in GNU manifesto and other articles of >> free software philosophy as written by Dr. Richard M. Stallman. > > Can we distill this

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
I agree. I think in practice many (most?) maintainers not only agree to uphold the free software values, but also share them. In practise, we cannot know -- making the assumption is dangerous. It also excludes people who still wish to contribute to the GNU project but have a different set

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-23 Thread Alfred M. Szmidt
RMS is a bus factor of one. That is true, and that is something that is already being worked on on reducing. None of this was a grave issue last year, 5 years ago, or 10 years ago it can surley wait a while more. So a bit of patience. ___ gnu-misc-

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-23 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hello, Mark Wielaard skribis: > For my own GNU project (some years ago) we did use savannah, but we > had to give up on lists.gnu.org because it just didn't scale to the > volume of email that we produced. Savannah didn't provide a wiki, so we > set one up ourselves, etc. We had setup our own pl

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 14:00 -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:55 PM DJ Delorie wrote: > > Even if we all agree on the "big picture simple answer" the details and > > "best practices" are just as important. > > > > Do you have any suggestions for filling in these details? >

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-23 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 14:54 -0400, DJ Delorie wrote: > Well, that covers quite a bit. Not all of it, I assume. That might > be enough for projects that live 100% in the gnu.org domain, but not all > do. The ones that do, just need to check that they really are, and the > ones that don't, need a

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Jean Louis
* DJ Delorie [2019-10-22 23:39]: > > and whoever is loyal to free software philosophy as envisioned > > by Dr. Richard Stallman, > > A constitution would describe this philosophy, though. How do we > otherwise follow what is only in one person's mind, if not by writing it > down to share? Const

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Jean Louis
* DJ Delorie [2019-10-22 23:39]: > > There is still much more to be done regarding users' freedom and human > > rights. > > I do not agree that human rights - as its own topic - belongs here, > except insofar as they directly relate to exercising the Four Freedoms. > Because software can be an ex

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread DJ Delorie
Ruben Safir writes: >> So the question becomes... what happens if, $diety forbid, RMS gets hit >> by a bus? Who does the "appointing" then? > > weel it certainly can't be anyone who makes a public petition to remove > RMS. Those people are autmoatically not viable canidates. There is nothing

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Ruben Safir
. writes: > This is already solved. The GNU domain (and many copyrights and right to > issue new versions of licenses etc.) is held by FSF. <> There are no disasaters. There are just cheap politics. It is all under the GPL. If you don't like what is happing, just fork it. -- So many immigr

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread DJ Delorie
writes: > This is already solved. The GNU domain (and many copyrights and right to > issue new versions of licenses etc.) is held by FSF. Well, that covers quite a bit. Not all of it, I assume. That might be enough for projects that live 100% in the gnu.org domain, but not all do. The ones th

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread František Kučera
Dne 22. 10. 19 v 19:01 DJ Delorie napsal(a): > Ruben Safir writes: >> Appointment has always worked. > … > > RMS is a bus factor of one. > > … > > Every GNU project should ask themselves this question too - is there one > person who, if they went MIA, would cause the project undue distress? > Say,

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread DJ Delorie
>> Franta, I made suggestions, days ago, about a constitution for GNU. Let's >> work on this suggestion. > > GNU is free operating system. GNU is way more than this now. Let's not limit ourselves. > It has already its constitution in GNU manifesto and other articles of > free software philosoph

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 1:55 PM DJ Delorie wrote: > Even if we all agree on the "big picture simple answer" the details and > "best practices" are just as important. > > Do you have any suggestions for filling in these details? The day-to-day running of things should certainly be documented somew

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread DJ Delorie
Ruben Safir writes: > Appointment has always worked. In another project I contribute to, there was a conversation about the project's "bus factor": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bus_factor We tried to restructure the project so that no one role had a bus factor of one. RMS is a bus factor of o

Re: [Backtotheaugust] Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Jean Louis
* Adrienne G. Thompson [2019-10-22 21:15]: > On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 3:16 AM František Kučera > wrote: > > > The problem with this approach is the risk of hostile takeover. There > > are corporations (e.g. those that profit from proprietary > > software/cloud) ... that have almost unlimited > >

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Ruben Safir
On 10/22/19 10:37 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote: >> 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 organization

Re: [Backtotheaugust] Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Adrienne G. Thompson
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 3:16 AM František Kučera wrote: > The problem with this approach is the risk of hostile takeover. There > are corporations (e.g. those that profit from proprietary > software/cloud) ... that have almost unlimited > (from our point of view) financial and developers resource

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Ludovic Courtès
Hi Mark, Mark Wielaard skribis: > Information For Maintainers of GNU Software: > https://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/ > > GNU Coding Standards: > https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/ > > For the basic ideas of GNU and Free Software: > https://www.gnu.org/gnu/the-gnu-project.html > https://w

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Carlos O'Donell
On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:21 AM Ruben Safir 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 c

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Ruben Safir
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 sugges

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 10:16 +0200, František Kučera wrote: > i.e. there is no guarantee that contributors are faithful to free > software ideas and that they always work for the benefit of users and > their freedom. > > So if this is to have a chance of success, there must be a rigid > (immutable)

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi Ruben, On Tue, 2019-10-22 at 01:08 -0400, Ruben Safir wrote: > On 10/21/19 7:04 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > > But let me try to explain how GNU > > would ideally look like to me. > > I don't really care. GNU is what Richard wants it to be and that is > a good thing. That is a different organ

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread František Kučera
Dne 21. 10. 19 v 17:08 Mark Wielaard napsal(a): > In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the > GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it would be > nice to make it more formally so. BTW: What kind of decisions you are talking about? Could you give som

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread František Kučera
Dne 21. 10. 19 v 17:08 Mark Wielaard napsal(a): > In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the > GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it would be > nice to make it more formally so. The problem with this approach is the risk of hostile takeover. There

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-22 Thread Ruben Safir
On 10/21/19 7:04 PM, Mark Wielaard wrote: > But let me try to explain how GNU > would ideally look like to me. I don't really care. GNU is what Richard wants it to be and that is a good thing. -- So many immigrant groups have swept through our town that Brooklyn, like Atlantis, reaches myth

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-21 Thread Kaz Kylheku (gnu-misc-discuss)
On 2019-10-21 08:08, Mark Wielaard wrote: Hi, In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it would be nice to make it more formally so. That instinctively has me wondering what a "recursive descent" organizati

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, On Mon, 2019-10-21 at 17:16 +0200, Félicien Pillot wrote: > On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:08:33 +0200 > Mark Wielaard wrote: > > In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where > > the GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it > > would be nice to make it more f

Re: Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-21 Thread Félicien Pillot
On Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:08:33 +0200 Mark Wielaard wrote: > Hi, > > In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the > GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it would be > nice to make it more formally so. > What do you suggest? -- Félicien Pillot 2C7C

Turning GNU into a bottom-up organization

2019-10-21 Thread Mark Wielaard
Hi, In practice GNU already is mostly a bottom-up organization, where the GNU hackers that do the actual work shape the project, but it would be nice to make it more formally so. Cheers, Mark ___ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org