Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project

[Dmitry Alexandrov]

Taylan Kammer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 07.10.2019 16:32, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>>    https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/
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> Some drama about this leaked out of my mailing list-specific sub-folders 
> (which I only skim occasionally) into my main INBOX, so of course I had to 
> jump straight into it even though I'm barely around these days. ;-)
>
> Jokes aside, I wanted to ask:
>
> Hasn't RMS already officially stepped down?  What position does he hold 
> within today's GNU project other than being a wise old person (wise with 
> respect to his topics of expertise) who is respected a lot?

Relevant mails from RMS himself are below.  (Please note, that newsgroup, as it 
often happens on Gmane, is misnamed, it’s GNU’s ML, not FSF’s.)

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> GNU Project
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> Thu, 26 Sep 2019 13:20:25 -0400
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> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
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> On September 16 I resigned as president of the Free Software
> Foundation, but the GNU Project and the FSF are not the same.
> I am still the head of the GNU Project (the Chief GNUisance),
> and I intend to continue as such.
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> -- 
> Dr Richard Stallman
> Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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> -- 
> If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like
> to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package,
> see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
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> GNU-FSF relationship
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> Date: 
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> Mon, 07 Oct 2019 09:54:41 -0400
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> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
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> I recently resigned as president of the FSF, but the FSF continues to
> provide several forms of crucial support for the GNU Project.  As head
> of the GNU Project, I will be working with the FSF on how to structure
> the GNU Project's relationship with the FSF in the future.
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> Suggestions can be sent to address@hidden.
>
> -- 
> Dr Richard Stallman
> Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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>
>
> -- 
> If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like
> to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package,
> see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
>
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> Subject: 
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> No radical changes in GNU Project
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> Date: 
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> Tue, 08 Oct 2019 16:48:23 -0400
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> As Chief GNUisance, I'd like to reassure the community
> that there won't be any radical changes in the GNU Project's
> goals, principles and policies.
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> I would like to make incremental changes in how some decisions are
> made, because I won't be here forever and we need to ready others to
> make GNU Project decisions when I can no longer do so.  But these
> won't lead to unbounded or radical changes.
>
> -- 
> Dr Richard Stallman
> Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
> Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
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>
>
> -- 
> If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like
> to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package,
> see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
>
> --- End Message ---

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