Ring, officially a GNU package
What's the advantage of being a GNU project these days? It seems like it ties you very strongly to the FSF's political opinions and in particular Richard Stallman's political opinions (e.g., eugenics) and restricts your technical decision-making options (e.g., limited plugin architecture, limited support for non-free OSes, mandatory support for things like GNUTLS), while not giving you very much in return - with the existence of GitHub and a wide variety of competitors, it's pretty easy to attract a healthy development community independent of GNU. What am I missing?