I really love the idea of GNU, yet the FSF seems to more interested about "principles" than shipping good code and empowering collaboration. In times of Github

I really love the idea of GNU, yet the FSF seems to more interested about "principles" than shipping good code and empowering collaboration. In times of Github and low-entry barrier participation, GNU sticks to the old ways like a dinosaur - petrifying. It reminds me a little of vim, as bash, it has a really old code base, old-style function headers (not ANSI C). For Vim it took a github-based fork (neovim) to get a big community on board, establish tests and perform the necessary refactoring. All of this is great, just as the work of the founders of these programs. The criticism is not aimed at the work that was done by the "founders" of these landmark programs, but the stagnation of development and refactoring.