> Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2021 at 10:12 AM > From: "Giacomo Tesio" <giac...@tesio.it> > To: "Ian Lance Taylor" <i...@google.com> > Cc: "GCC Development" <gcc@gcc.gnu.org>, g...@gnu.org, "David Brown" > <david.br...@hesbynett.no> > Subject: Re: GCC association with the FSF > > Just for the record, I was not talking about developers but about the > leadership of the project, Ian. > > 8 out of 13 members of the Steering Committee are from US-corporations. > > This is a fact.
Many in tech have worked at some point in their lives with large corporations. This is not wrong it itself because most knowledge is concentrated in highly industrialized countries. I owe much of my technological experience during my days working with british, dutch and french intelligence. It is also well known that governments employ about 10% of the best mathematicians. Furthermore I cannot see how you can feel secure if the people involved work from Non-Us Corporations. There are many countries that are even worse than the US. > Just like the weird relations some of these companies have had with US > Government: > https://www.virtualthreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nsa-google-cloud-exploitation.jpg > > The implications are left as an exercise for the readers. ;-) > > > Giacomo > > On April 9, 2021 9:40:33 PM UTC, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 9, 2021, 1:04 PM Giacomo Tesio <giac...@tesio.it> wrote: > > > > > Hi John, > > > > > > On April 9, 2021 6:36:31 PM UTC, John Darrington < > > > j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 07:01:07PM +0200, David Brown wrote: > > > > > > > > Different opinions are fine. Bringing national or > > international > > > > politics into the discussion (presumably meant to be as an > > insult) is > > > > not fine. This is not a political discussion - please stop > > trying to > > > > make it one. > > > > > > > > For the record it was David who first brought up the political > > > > > > I think David was talking about me: > > > https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-April/235285.html > > > > > > It was not meant to insult anybody, I was just asking to fix a > > serious > > > problem in GCC. > > > > > > Since it's clear that the Steering Committee doesn't want to address > > it, > > > I'm moving on. > > > > > > > > > GCC is clearly an US-only project. > > > A US-corporate one. Totally SFW (in the US). > > > > > > This is not intended as an insult. > > > It's just a fact. > > > > > > > Just for the record, for other readers, this is not even remotely > > true. > > > > Ian >
