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What does he actually do at the gnu project? It was my understanding that RMS doesn't program anymore.

• webkike 7y ago
  He makes decisions about software. It’s the same position as Linus or Rossum.
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  • canarypilot 7y ago
    Name some impactful decisions he has made recently. Your comment does an immense disservice to Linus and Rossum.
    • rdc12 7y ago
      A while back he was blocking things like, a package manager for emacs (that does exist now) and making GCC able to export an AST for external tools to manipulate (in particular for emacs to do semantic editing of code). In both cases since it would make it easier for closed source software to make use of GPL software.
    • pygy_ 7y ago
      Adding Rust as a first class citizen to GCC.
  • earenndil 7y ago
    Linus and Guido actively write code and merge patches for their respective patches.
  • _ph_ 7y ago
    He still might make decisions, but I doubt he has many technical contributions of his. And quite a few of his decisions can be discussed very controversial.
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