[PATCH] manual: Remove warning in the documentation of the abort function

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@gotplt.org
Thu Oct 10 13:14:00 GMT 2019


On 10/10/19 4:48 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 two issues are unrelated.  You are only making things worse for
>   > yourself and the community
> 
> That is a matter of judgment, and my judgment is different.
> 
> In my judgment, it is vital to decide, first, several broader issues
> that are bigger and more important.  Each of those issues affects the
> right way to decide this question _and other questions_.
> 
> I have not been idle about this.  I've brought up several of those
> issues, one by one, on this list, and we reached conclusions that are
> now stated in the coding standards or maintainer's guide.  But not
> quite all of them.  We should wait till the situation is clear and
> calm, then take up the remaining issues, one by one, with a month's
> pause in between.  Once they are resolved, we can wait another month,
> then take up the question of the abort(2) joke and decide it the right
> way.

I do not agree.  I will always be grateful to you for the idea of
Software Freedom that is one of my core personal values but I have no
faith in your judgment or intention in this regard because you're making
it clearer that it is about assertion of your power and influence in the
project, something I am deeply uncomfortable with and strongly believe
is not in the interest of the glibc project.

Siddhesh



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