On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Richard Kenner <ken...@vlsi1.ultra.nyu.edu> wrote: >> It also sounds a lot like you are saying the Steering Commitee does >> not care much if the FSF has control over the project, which I know to >> be false :) > > I don't understand your point. GCC is an FSF project. The SC is acting > here as an agent of the FSF. What the statement you quote means is that > the SC will manage the project on behalf of the FSF in such a way that no > single organization will have undo influence on it and the FSF: there's no > way to read this as saying that the FSF, who's project it is in the first > place, can't have undo influence ON ITSELF!
I must admit that this interpretation is quite new to me. It certainly wasn't when EGCS reunited with gcc. -- Gaby
