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Who is his most likely successor? Will GNU strategy change(the kernel coming to the front of my mind) or will things basically be the same?

loeg 7y ago
> Will GNU strategy change(the kernel coming to the front of my mind)? Hurd? Who cares? Linux has always been and will continue to be its own thing; it isn't a GNU project.
em3rgent0rdr 7y ago
The beauty about the free software movement he created is that is doesn't require a leader!
- mcguire 7y ago
  Which is good, since it hasn't really had one since 1990 or so. Has anyone else noticed that Stallman hasn't been effective, outside of the hard-core FSF, in a very long time? I'm a big fan of the GPL licenses. I'm a moderate fan of the FSF. But geeze, Stallman has been a liability in terms of the outside world for a long time.
hutzlibu 7y ago
How relevant is any GNU project today really? What is activly maintained and being used?
- detaro 7y ago
  bash, gcc, coreutils, make, ... For GCC, less Stallman influence, if it happens as a result of this, might have some consequences. E.g. there was some discussions about (not) having features giving deeper insight into internals some years ago, which are helpful to e.g. make code inspection tools, but also could be used to feed a non-GPL codegen backend. Many "GNU" projects are really run independently though, with little influence.
  - hutzlibu 7y ago
    "Many "GNU" projects are really run independently though, with little influence" Ok, I meant GNU projects, with actual ties to the organization and not just the name. If there is no real connection, then it does not really matter who leads GNU
- icebraining 7y ago
  I'd say the most used are Bash, GCC, glibc, Make, GRUB, Grep, Gnome, Emacs, Gettext, GIMP, GTK, Gzip, Less, Screen, Sed, Tar, and Wget. But that's just a small sample, you can see the whole list here: https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html
- lokedhs 7y ago
  Emacs is a core project and is being heavily developed. Version 27 is about to be released soon.

loeg 7y ago

> Will GNU strategy change(the kernel coming to the front of my mind)? Hurd? Who cares? Linux has always been and will continue to be its own thing; it isn't a GNU project.

em3rgent0rdr 7y ago

The beauty about the free software movement he created is that is doesn't require a leader!

mcguire 7y ago
Which is good, since it hasn't really had one since 1990 or so. Has anyone else noticed that Stallman hasn't been effective, outside of the hard-core FSF, in a very long time? I'm a big fan of the GPL licenses. I'm a moderate fan of the FSF. But geeze, Stallman has been a liability in terms of the outside world for a long time.

hutzlibu 7y ago

How relevant is any GNU project today really? What is activly maintained and being used?

detaro 7y ago
bash, gcc, coreutils, make, ... For GCC, less Stallman influence, if it happens as a result of this, might have some consequences. E.g. there was some discussions about (not) having features giving deeper insight into internals some years ago, which are helpful to e.g. make code inspection tools, but also could be used to feed a non-GPL codegen backend. Many "GNU" projects are really run independently though, with little influence.
- hutzlibu 7y ago
  "Many "GNU" projects are really run independently though, with little influence" Ok, I meant GNU projects, with actual ties to the organization and not just the name. If there is no real connection, then it does not really matter who leads GNU
icebraining 7y ago
I'd say the most used are Bash, GCC, glibc, Make, GRUB, Grep, Gnome, Emacs, Gettext, GIMP, GTK, Gzip, Less, Screen, Sed, Tar, and Wget. But that's just a small sample, you can see the whole list here: https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html https://www.gnu.org/manual/blurbs.html
lokedhs 7y ago
Emacs is a core project and is being heavily developed. Version 27 is about to be released soon.