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Re: [rain1 at airmail dot cc] Delete abortion joke
On Sun, 2018-05-06 at 23:54 -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > Part of why I have repeatedly refused to back my patch out is to
> > stand for the principle that the GNU Project Leader_shouldn't_ have
> > ex officio power to override a consensus decision of the active
> > maintainers of a specific piece of software.
>
> RMS could un-appoint current maintainers, and appoint new maintainers who agree
> with him on this particular issue.
Possible. And, IMHO, it would be kind of funny when this would -- most
likely -- lead to a fork, with the new project thriving and the old one
becoming less important (just look at how much work the people do that
opposed adding the "joke" back in...).
What a joke...