1:07 a.m.
Hello!
I became aware of the GNU Assembly on Mastodon, I emotionally depend on
the existence of guidelines such as the adopted Code of Conduct in any
project I contribute to. I am willing to revisit GNU as a project so
that it's political goals can be kept but the means to achieve them can
be altered and discussed in constructive ways without much of the
existing opinion "crystals" that exist and to me don't feel right in
various cases. I do not feel well with top-down governance of the FSF
and the GNU project, I feel like leaving GNU and FSF is also giving up
on the political goals in practice now, so I very much welcome
initiatives like this GNU Assembly to re-think GNU without giving up on
it.
I am a GNU Guix committer, I collaborated on the PowerPC 64-bits port
and more recently security work.
I am really enthusiastic about tackling exciting technical challenges
with like-minded software freedom loving folks. I am strarving for this
initiative since a while, I have felt limited with the political vision
of many other software hobbyist communities. I also hope that various
political reasonings can overlap, for example, that the idea of
rejecting all proprietary hardware has an horrible environmental impact
and that politically it may be better to defend something else while
still aiming at the same thing. I hope that the Free Software movement
can keep making sense in the presence of various other political
movements that are as important and that the Free Software movement
does not become contradictory to them. I think the various GNU licenses
in their current state and copyleft are really important and I wouldnt
want them to change in a way similar to Copyfair, Ethical Source, etc.
I think software in general is a collaborative effort, I think it must
federate the largest communities of developers, I think that GNU
licenses are especially interesting because they federate so much with
people from so many different political backgrounds. I think we need
many people to achieve anything durably with software. I think
Copyfair, Ethical source, etc, are not durable in that they encode
strong restrictions highly dependent on the current societal context
and that we cannot afford to recode all software when we realize those
arent good anymore.
Léo