[davexunit]

For what it's worth the association with GNU is basically historical at this point. RMS has never accepted the original vision of the project (to be the official GNU OS) and the project outgrew GNU's dilapidated infrastructure a long time ago, which the project is finally addressing with the migration to Codeberg. The FSF gave the project a place for people to donate specifically to Guix but have never really embraced it, otherwise. That has been superseded by a dedicated European nonprofit for Guix. The most recent Guix Days gathering before FOSDEM featured a lengthy conversation of breaking ties with GNU entirely but no decision has been made on that, yet.

[kwk1]

It seems to me like the better strategy would be to "do the right thing" according to the internal values of the project and make GNU be the one who breaks ties, otherwise the opportunity for positively influencing something important is lost. Still a newcomer though, so that's just my 2c. Hope to be there with y'all in Brussels next year! By the time I found out about it, it was apparently already full.