On Thu, 2021-04-15 at 16:26 -0400, Chris Punches wrote: > What I see here in sum is another high level tightly integrated Red > Hat > employee saying the gist of "I'm really not saying it out of my > employer's interest and it has nothing to do with my personal > feelings".
I'm not sure I'm "high level", but I guess I'll take that as a compliment. I stated that the opinions in my screed were my own, but I'm a former FLOSS enthusiast in the fortunate position of being paid to work on GCC. I've tried to be open about my biases. > > Every single proponent of this argument that I have seen so far is > employed by one of the same 5 companies and "really isn't doing it on > behalf of my company I swear". > > Why is it almost exclusively that specific crowd saying it here, > then? Because, sadly, there's only a small group of companies that employ GCC developers. These developers tend to have an emotional attachment to the project (e.g. a broad agreement with the professed goals of the FSF). Part of the reason I work at Red Hat is that its own internal culture aligns with mine, much of the time, anyway (and I know we're not perfect). Hence there's some correlation between those with strong opinions on the project and those who are being paid to work on it. I don't see that as malicious or a conspiracy - just that we, reasonably, care about the work we do and its context. It's not necessarily just a job for me. > > I just don't buy it. Please say anything that would not support the > emerging theory that these companies are using integrated employees > to > try to emulate justification/pretext for a rift to attack the free > software world. Anything at all. I hope I just did. Dave