Giacomo Tesio wrote: > And while this is IBM, the other US corporations with affiliations in the Steering Committee are no better: https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-April/235777.html
> I can understand that some of you consider working for such corporations "a > joy". > But for the rest of us, and to most people outside the US, their influence over the leadership of GCC is a threat. > Please, do not create a hostile environment for indipendent contributors. What do you mean by independent? If you're independently wealthy and don't need to work, you can avoid this. If you're a cashier or field laborer or in some other poorly paid job, then your employer probably doesn't care. Otherwise, if you work for a company that produces software, even just internally, or for a university, or a company where your name might be associated with the company, then your employer may demand that you cease publicly working on Free Software. I find it a bit hypocritical; there's no objection to the fact that GCC was developed using stuff bought with funds donated by these companies, their creators and their employees, to MIT, including people like Jeffery Epstein, one of the Koch brothers, and Bill Gates. But how dare IBM hire people to work on GCC! We need to preserve our independence! -- The standard is written in English . If you have trouble understanding a particular section, read it again and again and again . . . Sit up straight. Eat your vegetables. Do not mumble. -- _Pascal_, ISO 7185 (1991)
