Taylan Kammer <taylan.kam...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 07.10.2019 16:32, Ludovic Courtès wrote: >> https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2019/joint-statement-on-the-gnu-project/ > > Some drama about this leaked out of my mailing list-specific sub-folders > (which I only skim occasionally) into my main INBOX, so of course I had to > jump straight into it even though I'm barely around these days. ;-) > > Jokes aside, I wanted to ask: > > Hasn't RMS already officially stepped down? What position does he hold > within today's GNU project other than being a wise old person (wise with > respect to his topics of expertise) who is respected a lot?
Relevant mails from RMS himself are below. (Please note, that newsgroup, as it often happens on Gmane, is misnamed, it’s GNU’s ML, not FSF’s.)
--- Begin Message ---[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] On September 16 I resigned as president of the Free Software Foundation, but the GNU Project and the FSF are not the same. I am still the head of the GNU Project (the Chief GNUisance), and I intend to continue as such. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
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--- Begin Message ---[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] I recently resigned as president of the FSF, but the FSF continues to provide several forms of crucial support for the GNU Project. As head of the GNU Project, I will be working with the FSF on how to structure the GNU Project's relationship with the FSF in the future. Suggestions can be sent to gnu-and-...@gnu.org. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
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--- Begin Message ---As Chief GNUisance, I'd like to reassure the community that there won't be any radical changes in the GNU Project's goals, principles and policies. I would like to make incremental changes in how some decisions are made, because I won't be here forever and we need to ready others to make GNU Project decisions when I can no longer do so. But these won't lead to unbounded or radical changes. -- Dr Richard Stallman Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org) -- If you have a working or partly working program that you'd like to offer to the GNU project as a GNU package, see https://www.gnu.org/help/evaluation.html.
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