Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 15, 2026, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:

> We have conversations on these mailing lists about the use of
> other proprietary tools that help with the development and debugging of
> Free Software and the GNU Toolchain.  We have conversations about SPEC CPU,
> Plum Hall, Perennial, Nullstone, etc.  We have conversations about building
> and debugging the GNU Toolchain with proprietary compilers, assemblers,
> linkers, debuggers, C Libraries, Math libraries, SIMD libraries, BLAS
> libraries, etc.  We have conversations about the GNU Toolchain targeting
> proprietary assemblers, linkers, libraries, operating systems, and computer
> architectures.

These are all cases of "I and my customer are lusers of Bate, and I want
to make GCC work better with Bate".  It doesn't invite or push anyone to
surrender one's freedom to Bate's supplier.

When people engage in advertising and pushing addictive (thus
freedom-depriving) drugs on GNU fora, that's an entirely different
situation.  Let's not pretend they're similar, please.  The correct
response must be to push back: it's spam, unsolicited advertisement, and
it should have been blocked as such; it's also a trap on top of that,
because it's SaaSS.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker            https://blog.lx.oliva.nom.br/
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