Hello, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> writes:
> This is very sad. I appreciate the enormous time investments of all > of you for Guile. When you make a decision, I hope you understand the > other. > > Regards, > Florian Many incredibly thoughtful emails have been sent to the mailing list on this subject, and I will struggle to communicate ideas any more clearly than has been done so far. I have enormous respect for the work that RMS carried to bring Free Software, and indeed GNU, into the world. It is possible to recognise the great deeds of a person whilst realising they are flawed, like the rest of us; or that they have also done less than desirable things. It is possible to believe RMS has done great work, and to believe that maybe he is not the right person to lead the FSF or GNU. If you start a movement, you must realise that at some point you might find yourself no longer the leader of it. I believe that if different people, over a long period of time, keep expressing similar worries about a person, then we need to listen to those people. But all the above points are really only tangentially related to the present conversation. Here, we are concerned with the wonderful community that exists right now around Guile and Guix. And I want this community to continue to exist, and grow and retain its momentum. We are all responsible for the wonderful community we have here, and the way that this debate has taken place on these lists, when compared to others I have seen is testament to this. As for the disagreements between the past and present maintainers, I have enormous respect for all of you, and hope you can together come to an agreement on how to proceed. I do believe there is sufficient space in our community for different perspectives. We should always start from a commitment to doing what's right and to ensuring our space is welcoming to people from all walks of life. Best wishes, Alex
