Re: A GNU Distribution

[Christophe Poncy]

On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 20:07:28 -0400, Richard Stallman wrote:
> > If I understood correctly, Daniel Robbins is currently writing a new
> > version of portage. My feeling is that we need experienced hackers 
> > on
> > this project. And another way to launch such a project could be to 
> > use
> > an existing distro. Nobody asked for that, but my dream is to 
> > initiate a
> > dialogue between Daniel and RMS
>
> I don't recognize the name, but I could talk with him if that is
> useful.  First, however, I need to know what the starting situation
> is.  What is his attitude towards GNU and towards the free software
> movement?

The starting situation is probably not easy but I am optimistic by 
nature :) I think that he doesn't see in *GNU* the whole system, yet. 
And he seems more close to the open source camp than the free software 
movement. That said, I believe in your capacity to convince people and 
change History! And I believe in the GNU capacity to attract the best 
free software hackers, especially when they built "human" projects that 
are widely used (Google is using portage for its "Chrome OS" project"). 
Daniel has a strong experience in free software projects, he is a great 
leader that can get the best from others.

I can't talk for him but I am pretty sure he values both GNU and the 
free software movement. As French, I discovered Funtoo GNU/Linux through 
the Funtoo-Quebec community, which is strongly supportive to Software 
Freedom. People who have made Funtoo-Quebec are friends with him. And 
Funtoo-Quebec became the official support of Funtoo for French speaking 
people.


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