Re: When can we expect a version 1.0 of the GNU Operating System?

[Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro]

Em Fri, 21 Nov 2014 03:28:30 -0500
address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) escreveu:

> The priority of the GNU project has always been to free users, not to
> develop the GNU system.  Since we have a free system, our priorities
> are to work on furthering the goal of freedom for all computer users.

The purpose of the GNU project has always been to develop the GNU
system.  Citing RMS[1]:

  The project to develop the GNU system is called the "GNU Project".

It's laughable your attempt to contradict the GNU project's founder
and current head.


> Right now one of the biggest struggles in front of us is non-free
> Javascript, see https://fsf.org/campaigns/freejs and how companies are
> trying to cripple computers for everyone with "Restricted Boot", see
> http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/campaigns/secure-boot-vs-restricted-boot.
> 
> Putting explicit effort on release "the" GNU system would not help any
> of those goals, hence why work and thought on the GNU system is not a
> current priority.  Maybe when all software users are free from the
> shackles of software hoarders we can finish this, but until that day
> there are more pressing issues.

That is something the FSF should campaign for and some GNU hackers
would happily help by looking for technical solutions and even
implementing it in the GNU system, if applicable.  That wouldn't
change our purpose, though.

We all want to see the free software movement to succeed, and we would
like to fight whatever threats to computer users' freedom could
possibly come to be, however the development of the GNU system is the
GNU hackers' main job.


Footnotes: 
[1] https://www.gnu.org/gnu/gnu-history.html

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