Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke

[Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>]

On 05/07/2018 07:30 AM, Richard Stallman wrote:
> [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
> [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
> [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]
>
>    > The GNU C Library project is mostly a consensus-based community-driven
>    > project.
>
> I think that's literally true, due to the word "mostly", but people
> could get the wrong idea from it.  GNU Libc is not an independent
> project.
>
> The GNU C Library is a GNU package -- part of the GNU Project.  That
> means I appoint official maintainers who are in charge of the work.
> They are responsible to the GNU Project and specifically to me as
> Chief GNUisance.  I appointed the GNU Libc maintainers in that way.

I am not under any illusion that glibc is an independent project.  My 
sarcasm (!) was in response to your statement which seems to indicate 
that you're willing to disregard the consensus of the community because 
it doesn't align with your personal views.  The fact that you continue 
to discuss somewhat productively gives me some hope, which is why I 
continue arguing the matter.

I made the case for a distinction between the GNU project and the FSF 
and the feature creep in core values that you broadly agreed with (in 
theory) elsewhere but you're unwilling to accept the gravity of the 
situation because you personally don't see the seriousness of it despite 
a bunch of active contributors letting their objection be known for 
various reasons.

I am not an FSF steward you've appointed so you don't have to take me 
seriously (conversely I don't answer to you either) but we seem to 
broadly care about the same things in the context of the GNU project, as 
do most others on this thread, so I'd like you to consider that when you 
use your decree and alienate the community.

Siddhesh

PS: Alex seems to have already reverted the patch stating that you get 
final decree (and he is exercising it on your behalf) or something like 
that, which is mildly annoying in this context but I guess it's 'by the 
books'.