On Thu, 2021-04-01 at 17:23 +0200, Andrea G. Monaco wrote: > > I strongly disagree with the removal of Dr. Stallman from the > Steering > Committee.
RMS was not removed from the GCC Steering Committee; his name was removed from the *web page* of the steering committee. Based on the discussion here it appears to me that he never was a member of the steering committee, and the listing on that web page was in error (and thus the recent thread on this was misnamed). Rather, one of the roles of the steering committee seems to be to interact with RMS and the FSF on behalf of the project so that the rest of us can get on with maintaining our Free Software compiler. Thanks Steering Committee members! (I liked David Edelhsohn's analogy earlier that the SC is about removing roadblocks so that the developers can get on with things). > Not only RMS wrote the GCC initially, but I think he is the best > person > by far who can guarantee the values of free software, with unmatched > integrity and lucidity. > > That's especially important in the SC, given the presence of powerful > and evil corporations like Google and IBM. > > I suspect that many people agree with me, but perhaps they are scared > into silence by this intimidating and hostile mob. The only intimidation I've seen on this list has been from one of RMS's supporters. Hope this is constructive Dave (my opinions, and not those of my employer, which though it may have made mistakes over the years is not currently overtly evil, last time I checked)
