On Wed, 7 Apr 2021 at 15:04, David Malcolm wrote: > For myself, I'm interested in copyleft low-level tools being used to > build a Free Software operating system, but the "GNU" name may be > permanently tarnished for me; I have no wish to be associated with a > self-appointed "chief GNUisance". I hope the FSF can be saved, since > it would be extremely inconvenient to have to move.
This matches my feelings. If the FSF can be saved, fine, but I don't think GCC needs to remain associated with it. If the GNU name is a problem, rename the projects to be simply "GCC", "Glibc", "GDB" etc without being an initialism.