On 2019-10-11 20:41, Taylan Kammer wrote:
[…] What position does he hold within today's GNU project other than being a wise old person (wise with respect to his topics of expertise) who is respected a lot?
As a simple user, I see him as the guardian of the temple ("Chief GNUisance"), and that reassures me because he embodies the free software philosophy on its own.
the maintainers and contributors collectively hold a lot more power than any single person.
IMO, the GNU essence is more powerful than the sum of its hackers.
So in a way I guess I don't really see what the statement is trying to accomplish
It visibly sets the scapegoat mechanism in motion, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating#Scapegoat_mechanism
