Le 16/04/2021 à 19:06, Richard Kenner a écrit : >> The authority of the FSF, GNU and RMS over GCC is and has been a >> fiction for decades, > For the most part, I agree. > >> It would be usefull to clarify with the FSF and GNU what the >> actual relations are, > Why? What would that gain? I go back to my analogy of the British Queen. > What would be gained by "clarifying" that if she actually intervenes > non-trivially in the government of any Commonwealth nation, she'd lose > that power?
There are differences between the queen and RMS, even if the image has some merit. For example, the UK remains a formal monarchy in part because the queen has better social skills than RMS. The supporters of software freedom in general are probably not in favour of a monarchy, even formal, even if they know their debt to RMS. Therefore, if the GNU project loves to keep this childish fictious power of the chief GNUisance, this doesn't prevent GCC to remain associated to the FSF. -- Didier _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
