> Sent: Friday, April 09, 2021 at 6:21 AM > From: "John Darrington" <j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> > To: "David Malcolm" <dmalc...@redhat.com> > Cc: g...@gnu.org, "Alfred M. Szmidt" <a...@gnu.org>, "Mark Wielaard" > <m...@klomp.org> > Subject: Re: GCC association with the FSF > > On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 10:54:25AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote: > > I think it's important to distinguish between the figurative and > literal here. > > No one is literally calling for anyone's head. > > > Nobody has explicitly done so. However in the last 2 or 3 years there > has been a growing campaign of hatred. The people feeding that > campaign are unhappy with things that RMS and others have said. > However they have taken it further than that. These people seek > eliminate *anyone* who holds certain opinions - they don't care how > they get eliminated - so long as they go. What's more, they cite > numerous putative moralistic justifications to give an air of > legitmacy to that hatred. > > Once such hatefulness becomes accepted, people DON'T any longer make that > literal--figurative distinction. > > Some of us don't want RMS in a leadership position in a project we're > associated with (be it the FSF or GNU, and thus, GCC). > > RMS was the first person to be involved in GNU and GCC. Others became > involved later (under his leadership). Their contribution was and > continues to be welcome. They are also free to stop contributing any > time they wish to do so. > > > My opinions, not my employer's, as usual. > > Then why do you write this from your employer's email? That is like > writing it on the company letterhead. I suggest that when speaking > for yourself you use your own email.
Fair points John. > J' >
