Re: State of the GNUnion 2020

[Samuel Thibault]

Alexandre François Garreau, le sam. 22 févr. 2020 13:50:49 +0100, a ecrit:
> Le vendredi 21 février 2020, 22:57:55 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > Alexandre François Garreau, le ven. 21 févr. 2020 11:59:42 +0100, a 
> ecrit:
> > > Le jeudi 20 février 2020, 18:39:52 CET Samuel Thibault a écrit :
> > > > I'm not saying that GNU will necessarily stop growing and decline.
> > > > What
> > > > I'm afraid is that it might just become insignificant compared to
> > > > others, and thus its voice for the 4 freedoms become less and less
> > > > heard.
> > > 
> > > That’s a reasonable fear, so that should be what should have been
> > > measured in the metrics discussed in this thread.
> > 
> > But how can you measure *that*?
> 
> Do the same metrics with other projects, possibly linked but faarer, 
> included in GNU(/Linux) OS, be it Linux, Xorg packages, (La)TeX, KDE, 
> Gnome, etc.

That would allow to compare with other free software projects, yes. But
what I'm after is not comparing with other free software projects, but
with other places where people may want to contribute. Places which are
not necessarily so much about free software and do not aim to be, such
as github.

Samuel