> I guess we get to trust that it is currently more important to listen > to the thoughts and beliefs of outsiders (who are apparently > themselves not in contact with the rest of the community) than it is > to listen to the people actually doing the work on GCC. > This seems a bit strange.
To me, the role of the SC is to intermediate between the GCC devleopers and the external community, which means both the FSF and the so-called "stakeholders" in GCC. It would be wrong to consider either of those sides as more "important" than the other and I see no evidence to suggest that the SC has done so here.
