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yeah, I expect GNU to go the way of the dodo in the not-so-distant future. Most projects will survive, of course, but probably under new leadership or something
by dark-star 4y ago
yeah, I expect GNU to go the way of the dodo in the not-so-distant future. Most projects will survive, of course, but probably under new leadership or something.
In every other industry you learn to adapt to new developments until you retire, yet GNU seems to insist on using decades-old software (cvs, autotools, ...) just because.
That just has to backfire at some point...
- cies 4y ago> Most projects will survive, of course, but probably under new leadership or something. That is called a fork. For the fork to work you need momentum. Historically this did not work really well. And the forks mostly died. What I do see is that big biz does not like (L)GPL (and absolutely hate AGPL), so they prefer to through their momentum behind BSD (and similar) licensed code. This is how a lot of momentum was focused away from GNU projects (e.g.: LLVM over GCC)
- dark-star 4y ago> That is called a fork No that's not what I mean. I mean more like GNOME which once was a GNU project and then left GNU to continue on their own. There are more examples like that. They don't need new manpower or inertia. They just drop GNU if they feel it keeps them back (which a lot of projects recently think, apparently, after the whole RMS drama some time back)
- tpoacher 4y agoNot true. There's a large number of industries that prefer reliable older tech to unreliable ephemeral new tech.
- teddyh 4y agoPeople have been predicting the end of GNU ever since the beginning, perhaps starting in earnest in 1994, when the GNU project was 10 years old! Outdated, obsolete, practically one foot in the grave, surely, people said. And yet here we are in 2022, RMS being more right than ever.