On Wed Apr 14, 2021 at 12:18 PM BST, Richard Kenner via Gcc wrote:
> > The choice to /not/ have a policy for ejecting jerks has serious costs.
> > One of those costs is the kind of rancorous dispute that has been
> > burning like a brushfire on this list the last few weeks.
>
> Although I agree with the sentiment, there's a real risk that if we
> were heading in that direction, we'd be replacing part of that
> rancorous dispute with another rancorous dispute, this time about
> whether to eject people.
And after that, an ongoing rancorous debate about who to eject, which
was ESR's premise: a project which decides its purpose is to separate
from wrongthinkers is naturally going to waste a lot of valuable time
and effort arguing about what counts as wrongthink. Time and effort
which could better be spent developing free software.
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