Joseph Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com>:
> On Wed, 14 Apr 2021, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > I'm not judging RMS's behavior (or anyone else's) one way or
> > another. I am simply pointing out that there is a Schelling point in
> > possible community norms that is well expressed as "you shall judge by
> > the code alone". This list is not full of contention from affirming
> > that norm, but from some peoples' attempt to repudiate it.
>
> Since RMS, FSF and GNU are not contributing code to the toolchain and
> haven't been for a very long time, the most similar basis to judge them
> would seem to be based on their interactions with toolchain development.
> I think those interactions generally show that FSF and GNU have been bad
> umbrella organizations for the toolchain since at least when the GCC 4.4
> release was delayed waiting for a slow process of developing the GCC
> Runtime Library Exception.
I do not have standing to argue this point.
I will, however, point out that it is a very *different* point from
"RMS has iupset some people and should therefore be canceled".
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
