CTI - Making a decision for glibc.

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jan 28, 2026, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:

> The leadership and developers of GLIBC and the GNU Toolchain are
> working in good faith for the best of the project.

I don't doubt that.  What I doubt, because of mounting evidence, is your
understanding of what free software is about.  The disregard and lack of
understanding of the problem of SaaSS is shining blindingly.

> CTI has ensured that it is conforming to the GNU Ethical repository hosting
> guidelines.

Like, why are you getting back to this particular point in response to
my concerns that you don't get SaaSS, if this retort has nothing
whatsoever to do with anything SaaSS.

To wit, holding and publishing data and mediating communication are
*not* SaaSS: they're not any particular individual's or group's
computing.

The problem is that, by interpreting "hosting" in expansive ways, as
proprietary/SaaSS providers have been doing to gain control over
projects hosted by them (I speak mainly of GitHub here), they encompass
in that term various computing activities that software development
communities should have control over, to avoid falling to the very
unjust power that the free software movement has fought since the '80s.

SaaSS may seem different because it can be implemented with free
software, but that's no relief when it is the service provider, not the
users whose computing is done, who gets the freedom.  The users, under
SaaSS, are even more overpowered by those who control the software than
if they used nonfree software on their own computers.

> GLIBC and the GNU Toolchain Project support the principles of the GNU
> Project, namely to develop and promote Free Software

And here again you're misdirecting.

That's only part of the GNU Project's principles.

What you're overlooking and dismissing, intentionally or not, is the
other part, namely that of promoting freedom by avoiding nonfree
software and SaaSS.

> The members of the GNU Project can have additional objectives
> and relationships with other developers and other organizations.

As long as they don't conflict with higher principles, which is the
problem at hand.

> The mission of the GNU Project shouldn't expand and shift based
> on the loudest voices

Not should it be betrayed by the more insistent subverters.

> The GNU Toolchain Project is operating
> with a clear, consistent set of principles.

Can you reassure me that it understands and avoids SaaSS?

If so, can you detail how that concern is being addressed?

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