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Discussion on: News: Call to remove RMS from FSF

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Ali Sherief

We urge those in a position to do so to stop supporting the Free Software Foundation. Refuse to contribute to projects related to the FSF and RMS.

This could be a problem to enforce IMO because several key Linux programs (pretty much all of coreutils, glibc, gcc and make) are copyrighted by the FSF.

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Jason C. McDonald • Edited

I've heard rumblings of forks.

In any case, there are alternatives!

I know that some are moving their contribution efforts to the LLVM/Clang stack instead of GCC. (As it is, from a source code perspective, LLVM code is infinitely cleaner and more maintainable than GNU's code.)

Instead of glibc, there's musl.

Instead of Autotools, we have CMake, Ninja, and SCons

And, again, all of GNU's code can be forked.

Remember, of course, the letter isn't calling for people to stop using FSF/GNU projects, just to stop contributing. If the FSF remains unyielding, we may just need to fork the GNU projects and/or change our defaults. With GNOME already backing the letter, that may be a real possibility.