On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 15:49, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 15:39, Thomas Koenig wrote: > > > > On 14.04.21 15:18, Eric S. Raymond wrote: > > > A strong norm about off-list behavior and politics being > > > out of bounds here is also helpful. > > > > That would have banned the whole discussion about the potential > > fork from the start. > > No, because once again, I raised the topic of a fork because I do not > feel that association with GNU or FSF benefits the GCC project. I did > not say "we have to cancel them because I don't like their politics" > (as it happens, I do like their politics, which is why I've spent two > decades writing copyleft code for GCC, I just think they have failed > to evolve and are sadly irrelevant today).
And "the leader of the project had some good ideas but has terrible leadership skills" is also not political. It's a valid criticism of a project that we are nominally supposed to be part of. I don't have more "technical" reason because GNU isn't a "technical" project, it's a political/philosophical one. The FSF even more so. And I don't need anybody's consensus to create a fork. Somebody doesn't understand how free software works.
