On 2021-04-09 14:34, Christopher Dimech wrote:
On the contrary, I eagerly await each and every one of your missives
on
this topic, hoping for exactly that very thing to occur.
I do not see how you and your friends at redhat could really get any
value
from it, because being a seeker of truth means refusing to make
assumptions
about things that you do not know. The moment you assume that you know
because
of what you believe, your intelligence will sleep. It is my wish and my
blessing
that every human being has their intelligence awake.
On 2021-04-10 07:49, Christopher Dimech via Gcc wrote:
There is a big difference between suppression or censorship, and
wanting
people in leadership positions to be representative of the values of
the
group they lead. RMS can have all the opinions he wants, and act has
he
will (until he ends up arrested for it), but if he is to remain a
representative for others (FSF, GNU and/or GCC), then he has a duty to
act appropriately according to the values those organisations think
are
important.
If you look at the history of computing you will find that it was
mostly
crooks and people of very mixed kind of qualities. Not al all saints.
Many of them quite unscrupolous and not very clever. And still they
managed
to do great things.
So it tells a kid: They could do that, why can't you? That was
certainly what turned me on. Freedom 0 also says "The freedom to run
a program as you wish, for any purpose".
Should we get our ideas from politicians and bureaucrats; or from
Aleksandr
Solzhenitsyn, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernest
Hemingway,
Aldous Huxley, Marie-Henri Beyle, and Emily Jane Brontë? From the
latter
of course!
So, that's a solid 'no' on the likelihood of you contributing anything
of value
to the discussion of GCC governance then?
