On Sun, 22 Mar 2009, Richard Kenner wrote: > > In the past, RMS had asserted that use some specific programming > > language with an international standard developed by ISO > > was unacceptable for the GNU project (and GCC in particular). > > That had had the practical effect of delaying for years, > > developments of projects both in GCC and directly related to GCC. > > I'm not sure I understand your reference, but those are clearly generic > issues relating to management of FSF projects overall and to philosophical > issues related to Free Software. That's very clearly the prerogative of > the FSF. What I heard claimed was that there was interference in the > *technical* issues, such as when to take branches or similar specific > technical choices. I've heard of no such examples before this one.
Btw, I cannot find anything related to this discussion (about whether and what power the FSF has to force their maintainers to do anything) in the official FSF documentation (http://www.gnu.org/prep/maintain/). Richard.
