CTI - Making a decision for glibc.

[Alexandre Oliva]

Thanks a lot for the writeup.

On Feb  3, 2026, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org> wrote:

> I forgot to add: full time specialists that are excellent citizens of
> the FOSS community.  For me personally, that is the clincher; I am
> quite glad that we'll have the likes of Konstantin and his team
> maintain our infrastructure, understand where we come from when we
> make our requests for FOSS-only tools and continually innovate in the
> open, as they do.

I'd be happy to have him and the people in his team working in our
infrastructure, FWIW.

But see, I'm talking about the people, *not* the organization they work
for.

Because that makes a huge difference.

When we speak of having people's help to run our servers, those are
*our* servers.  We choose how to operate them, and tell the people
who're working for us so.  If people move on, or if they fail to live up
to the expectations, we part ways but keep the servers.  And the issues
of SaaSS don't come about, because our community's computing will be
running on servers under our communitary control.

Whereas when we speak of moving our computing into servers owned and
operated by third parties, that's not the case.  Whenever we consider
parting ways, the questions of where to move to, and of the cost
involved, necessarily come about.  Whenever they tell us they're moving
on, those questions come about with urgency.  We become utterly
dependent, we lose our autonomy, and thus become vulnerable to
arm-twisting, and not only through the control afforded to the operator
by means of SaaSS.

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