I was briefly interested in joining the GNU project by donating my own code to it. However, as days pass, it's more and more difficult for me to justify such a decision in my mind. I admire the ideological inspiration of the project, catering to user freedoms and the idea of free software. Unfortunately, the whole movement of free and open source software became so politicised as to become a parody of itself.
There are holes that you can't patch and rivers that you can't bridge. There is a Marina trench sized gap between me and the guy who killed his wife[^1], the guy who thinks that GitHub sucks because you can't insult people on it[^2], the guy who thinks that J. K. Rowling sucks mainly because you can't draw a dickbutt on Harry's face[^3], the guy who had a heap of dung merged into X11, subsequently starting a "DEI-free" fork when an asteroid to kill this dinosaur went off-orbit[^4]. I could go on forever. I never thought of myself as perfect and I'm sure that you could have many complaints about me, but at least I haven't killed my wife, so here's that.
Maybe there is really demand for something like GNU but with all the bullshit straightened out.
BTW: While GNU raves about how SourceHut is so good and "free"[^5], DDV pulls the plug on cryptocoin projects[^6] - sorry, I should have said ruthlessly censors them. Not like I find anything wrong about that, but you'd imagine that they'd hate this guy too.
1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
2: https://sanctum.geek.nz/why-not-github.html
3: https://www.stallman.org/harry-potter.html
4: https://github.com/X11Libre/xserver
5: https://www.gnu.org/software/repo-criteria-evaluation.html
6: https://sourcehut.org/blog/2022-10-31-tos-update-cryptocurrency/
