Notices tagged with gnu

I need again to speak about #guile #guix, #gnu and #fsf.

The so called #GnuSocialContract is misleading.

Go read the document: https://wiki.gnu.tools/gnu:social-contract

First thing, 80% of the document (dubbed "contract" for some reason) is old stuff.

Re 4 freedoms: those do not reflect the world socioeconomic needs. In particular, giving the freedom to ANYONE to run the program, for ANY PURPOSE: is socially counter-productive. Economically speaking, it would help the world strive if / when more #diversity happens, more exchange and curation of ideas (that was dubbed noise by a gnu maintainer), instead of giving more power to the powerful. **The gnu license, give more power to the powerful.**

Re second paragraph about a consistent system: that is full garbage. I guess, it is in the document, to rule out "inconsistent". Who decide what is consistent? #rms?! It is more food for establishment trolls.

Re 3rd paragraph: collaborate with the broader free software community: there is two idea "collaborate" instead of "cooperate". I leave the exercise to the reader to read what historically "collaboration" means at least in #Europe. Second idea: "free software", that continues to hijack the definition of "free" and "freedom" to what gnu/fsf/lawyers decide is free (but not gratis #meme).

The last paragraph, is somewhat something like the pseudo-kind community guidelines. Here is it in full:

> The GNU Project welcomes contributions from all and everyone>> The GNU Project **commits to providing a harassment-free** experience for all contributors. It wants to give everyone the opportunity of contributing to **its efforts** on any of the many tasks that require work. It welcomes all contributors, regardless of their gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, level of experience, or any other personal characteristics.

GNU wants to trick you into thinking that it is "kind", giving the definition of kindness.

@a_breakin_glass it is unrelated to "anyone to run it for any purpose".

Exchange and curation is directed against the people that say that my work was noise directly or via passive behavior. Which basically mute all other voices, because gnu is used to top-down decision making.

I think we should collectively work to sort the good and the evil. In #gnu what I experienced, is that other members of the community wait for "top-level" decision AND meanwhile they claim "freedom of exchange".

> #Guile can use the #GNU Readline library. This is not enabled by default because of licensing reasons [...].

What?!

https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Readline.html

#lisp #scheme

Good progress installing #GNU #Guix on the #pinebook pro -- https://joyofsource.com/guix-system-on-the-pinebook-pro.html

Epic ! 🤩 🎇 💪

#gnu #hurd #guix #freesoftware #foss #microkernel #kernel #linux #hacker

https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/deprecating-support-for-the-linux-kernel/