Re: RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee (was: Remove RMS...)

2021-04-02 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Oh well, sure, but luckily the solution is just as fast and easy as > it was to remove RMS: pick just one person for each nationality and > remove the others. Why nationalities? That strikes me as a rather specific view focusing on one of many attributes

Re: RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee (was: Remove RMS...)

2021-04-01 Thread Jonathan Wakely via Gcc
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021 at 10:13, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > > > On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, 01:05 Giacomo Tesio, wrote: >> >> >> People all over the world, whatever their country, should be sure to be >> treated fairly and equally by the GCC leaders even if they want to >> contribute something that does not m

Re: RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee (was: Remove RMS...)

2021-04-01 Thread Jonathan Wakely via Gcc
On Thu, 1 Apr 2021, 01:05 Giacomo Tesio, wrote: > > People all over the world, whatever their country, should be sure to be > treated fairly and equally by the GCC leaders even if they want to > contribute something that does not match the culture or interests you > represent. > Everybody is we

Re: RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee (was: Remove RMS...)

2021-03-31 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Jeff, thanks for fixing your affiliation, but let me note that it doesn't change a dime for the geopolitical-diversity issue that affects GCC since before RMS joined the Steering Committee. On Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:35:36 -0600 Jeff Law wrote: > > To me, and to billions of people, this shows a

Re: RMS removed from the GCC Steering Committee (was: Remove RMS...)

2021-03-31 Thread Jeff Law via Gcc
On 3/31/2021 5:11 PM, Giacomo Tesio wrote: 10 out of 13 members of the GCC steering committee work either for American corporations (8), their subsidiaries (1) or an American University (1) recently covered by the press in India [3]. Also, 4 of these work for the same corporation (IBM / Red Ha