Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 6:09 PM > From: "Siddhesh Poyarekar" > To: "NightStrike" , "Ville Voutilainen" > > Cc: "GCC Development" > Subject: Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate > > On 4/17/21 12:11 AM, NightStrike via Gcc wrote: > > I was under the (likely incorr

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Siddhesh Poyarekar
On 4/17/21 12:11 AM, NightStrike via Gcc wrote: I was under the (likely incorrect, please enlighten me) impression that the meteoric rise of LLVM had more to do with the license allowing corporate contributors to ship derived works in binary form without sharing proprietary code. Intel, IBM, nVi

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Aaron Gyes via Gcc
> Furthermore, it continues to nullify the Apache License by allowing patent > treachery. The LLVM License is thus a perfidious license intended to > allow the licensor to sue you at their choosing.= “Patent treachery”? And the intent of the license is to... accommodate lawsuits? That’s some ver

A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
I was under the (likely incorrect, please enlighten me) impression that the meteoric rise of LLVM had more to do with the license allowing corporate contributors to ship derived works in binary form without sharing proprietary code. - NightStrike You are correct. LLVM is under the Apache License

A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
You have specified that the community does not require my approval or that of Eric Raymond. That is true of course. But many have gone through so much new age training that they ended up with a very sophisticated way of bullshitting themselves. Regards Christopher > I'll see my work in GCC11 th

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Ian Lance Taylor via Gcc
This conversation has moved well off-topic for the GCC mailing lists. Some of the posts here do not follow the GNU Kind Communication Guidelines (https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.en.html). I suggest that people who want to continue this thread take it off the GCC mailing list. T

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Thomas Rodgers
On 2021-04-17 12:08, Christopher Dimech wrote: Thomas, So we are decided? I am not pushing anybody down the cliff - rms, you or anybody. I simply wish that after a few world wars, people start seeing the light and things will be somewhat blissed out working on free software. In a lot of w

gcc-10-20210417 is now available

2021-04-17 Thread GCC Administrator via Gcc
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Re: RFC: Add GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_XXX/GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_OR_XXX

2021-04-17 Thread H.J. Lu via Gcc
On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 11:25 AM Fangrui Song wrote: > > > On 2021-04-17, H.J. Lu wrote: > >On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:42 PM Fangrui Song wrote: > >> > >> On 2021-01-21, H.J. Lu via Gnu-gabi wrote: > >> >On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:06 AM H.J. Lu wrote: > >> >> > >> >> 1. GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_LO.

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Thomas Rodgers
On 2021-04-17 10:40, Ville Voutilainen via Gcc wrote: On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 at 20:31, Christopher Dimech wrote: I do not see people really intending to fork. It explains why detractors have gone berserk. I appreciate your colorful exaggerations, but I should point out that the libstdc++ ma

Re: RFC: Add GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_XXX/GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_OR_XXX

2021-04-17 Thread Fangrui Song
On 2021-04-17, H.J. Lu wrote: On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:42 PM Fangrui Song wrote: On 2021-01-21, H.J. Lu via Gnu-gabi wrote: >On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:06 AM H.J. Lu wrote: >> >> 1. GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_LO..GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_HI >> >> #define GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_LO 0xb000 >

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread David Brown
On 17/04/2021 13:56, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Hi Gerald,, > > On April 17, 2021 9:09:19 AM UTC, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Frosku wrote: >>> In my view, if people employed by a small number of American >> companies >>> succeed in disassociating GCC from GNU/FSF, which is represen

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 5:40 AM > From: "Ville Voutilainen" > To: "Christopher Dimech" > Cc: "Jason Merrill" , "GCC Development" > Subject: Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate > > On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 at 20:31, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > I do not see people re

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Ville Voutilainen via Gcc
On Sat, 17 Apr 2021 at 20:31, Christopher Dimech wrote: > I do not see people really intending to fork. It explains why detractors > have gone berserk. I appreciate your colorful exaggerations, but I should point out that the libstdc++ maintainer has stated his intention to fork, in unambigous t

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 5:07 AM > From: "Ville Voutilainen" > To: "Jason Merrill" > Cc: "Christopher Dimech" , "GCC Development" > Subject: Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate > > On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 19:01, Jason Merrill wrote: > > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Ville Voutilainen via Gcc
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 at 19:01, Jason Merrill wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 10:49 AM Christopher Dimech via Gcc > wrote: > > > Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 1:03 AM > > > From: "Ville Voutilainen" > > > To: "Christopher Dimech" > > > Cc: "GCC Development" > > > Subject: Re: A suggestion

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
Fundamentally, "micro-aggressions" describe insults and dismissals. Interpreting insults and dismissals as aggression leads only to an atrophy of the skills needed to mediate one's own disputes with others. I oppose the use of the term absolutely. - Christopher Dimech General

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 9:41 PM > From: "Frosku" > To: "Giacomo Tesio" , "Andrew Pinski" , > "Andrew Pinski via Gcc" > Subject: Re: removing toxic emailers > > On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 10:08 AM BST, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > > But in fact, millions of people outside the US would feel ex

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 11:56 PM > From: "Giacomo Tesio" > To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org, "Gerald Pfeifer" , "Frosku" > > Subject: Re: removing toxic emailers > > Hi Gerald,, > > On April 17, 2021 9:09:19 AM UTC, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Frosku wrote: > > > In my view,

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 9:25 PM > From: "Frosku" > To: "Aaron Gyes" , gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: removing toxic emailers > > On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 10:04 AM BST, Aaron Gyes via Gcc wrote: > > On Apr 17, 2021, at 1:36 AM, Frosku wrote: > > > I feel imposed upon when, as a volunteer

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Christopher Dimech via Gcc
> Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2021 at 9:09 PM > From: "Gerald Pfeifer" > To: "Frosku" > Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org > Subject: Re: removing toxic emailers > > On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Frosku wrote: > > In my view, if people employed by a small number of American companies > > succeed in disassociating GCC fr

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Richard Kenner via Gcc
> >> It would be usefull to clarify with the FSF and GNU what the > >> actual relations are, > > Why? What would that gain? I go back to my analogy of the British Queen. > > What would be gained by "clarifying" that if she actually intervenes > > non-trivially in the government of any Commonwealt

Re: RFC: Add GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_XXX/GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_OR_XXX

2021-04-17 Thread H.J. Lu via Gcc
On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 1:42 PM Fangrui Song wrote: > > On 2021-01-21, H.J. Lu via Gnu-gabi wrote: > >On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 9:06 AM H.J. Lu wrote: > >> > >> 1. GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_LO..GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_HI > >> > >> #define GNU_PROPERTY_UINT32_AND_LO 0xb000 > >> #define GNU_PROPE

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Liu Hao via Gcc
在 17/04/2021 16.27, Aaron Gyes 写道: As far as I understand it Chris Punches lives in North America. Only 2% of the world population lives in the US, indeed, most live in China. It’s interesting the unkind reaction Liu Hao received in this very thread when they encountered the arguments making a

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Gerald,, On April 17, 2021 9:09:19 AM UTC, Gerald Pfeifer wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Frosku wrote: > > In my view, if people employed by a small number of American > companies > > succeed in disassociating GCC from GNU/FSF, which is representative > > of the free software grassroots communi

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Frosku
On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 10:08 AM BST, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > But in fact, millions of people outside the US would feel excluded. > And threatened. But we are all "jerks", right? > > ... > > Such culture is also dominated by RICH men, but it's unable to see the > problem in term of global and local d

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Frosku
On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 10:29 AM BST, Giacomo Tesio wrote: > Beware with what you desire, Frosku. > > On April 16, 2021 11:15:57 PM UTC, Frosku wrote: > > > > I can't speak for others, but for me at least, replacing ties with GNU > > with ties to another well-respected (non-corporate) entity in th

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Frosku
On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 10:08 AM BST, Aaron Gyes via Gcc wrote: > > I feel imposed upon when, as a volunteer, I'm expected to submit not just > > my volunteered time but all of my time in every venue to your cultural > > norms. > > Can you not imagine… some people have already felt that way for quit

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Beware with what you desire, Frosku. On April 16, 2021 11:15:57 PM UTC, Frosku wrote: > > I can't speak for others, but for me at least, replacing ties with GNU > with ties to another well-respected (non-corporate) entity in the free > software world like Debian or the Apache foundation would go

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Frosku
On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 10:04 AM BST, Aaron Gyes via Gcc wrote: > On Apr 17, 2021, at 1:36 AM, Frosku wrote: > > I feel imposed upon when, as a volunteer, I'm expected to submit not just > > my volunteered time but all of my time in every venue to your cultural > > norms. This is not normal. Just b

Re: A suggestion for going forward from the RMS/FSF debate

2021-04-17 Thread Didier Kryn
Le 16/04/2021 à 19:06, Richard Kenner a écrit : >> The authority of the FSF, GNU and RMS over GCC is and has been a >> fiction for decades, > For the most part, I agree. > >> It would be usefull to clarify with the FSF and GNU what the >> actual relations are, > Why? What would that gain? I go ba

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Gerald Pfeifer
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021, Frosku wrote: > In my view, if people employed by a small number of American companies > succeed in disassociating GCC from GNU/FSF, which is representative of > the free software grassroots community I find this insistant focus by some on "American companies" interesting - a

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Aaron Gyes via Gcc
> I feel imposed upon when, as a volunteer, I'm expected to submit not just > my volunteered time but all of my time in every venue to your cultural > norms. Can you not imagine… some people have already felt that way for quite some time, and became excluded? That it is not a hypothetical for them

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Giacomo Tesio
Hi Andrew and GCC, On April 17, 2021 5:04:55 AM UTC, Andrew Pinski via Gcc wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 9:56 PM Frosku wrote: > > > > On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 5:05 AM BST, Ian Lance Taylor wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021 at 4:16 PM Frosku wrote: > > > > > > > > When I refer to a 'California

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Aaron Gyes via Gcc
On Apr 17, 2021, at 1:36 AM, Frosku wrote: > I feel imposed upon when, as a volunteer, I'm expected to submit not just > my volunteered time but all of my time in every venue to your cultural > norms. This is not normal. Just because some of you are paid very nice > salaries to hack on free softwa

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Frosku
On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 9:27 AM BST, Aaron Gyes via Gcc wrote: > Give me a break Forsku. > > Could you care to share how you feel imposed upon or feel > disenfranchised by > this discussion not being sensitive to your culture? How does a code of > conduct, > or how would discouraging “micro-aggressi

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Aaron Gyes via Gcc
> I wasn't even implying that these cultures are 'good' or 'bad', just > that they exist and differ from the various regional cultures which > exist all over the world. I think people were quite touchy at my line > of questioning. I recognise that there are differences between i.e. > LA and Seattle

Re: removing toxic emailers

2021-04-17 Thread Frosku
On Sat Apr 17, 2021 at 7:21 AM BST, Chris Punches wrote: > I've lived in most states in the US and can confirm exclusionary > regional cultures not only exist but are more common than the absence > of them. > > You might not see it in Sioux City, but you'll see it in LA, you'll see > it in Dallas,