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From: Alexandre Oliva <oliva@gnu.org>
To: David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com>
Cc: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>,
	gcc@gcc.gnu.org,
	Overseers mailing list <overseers@sourceware.org>,
	libc-alpha@sourceware.org, gdb@sourceware.org,
	binutils@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: The GNU Toolchain Infrastructure Project
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2022 07:55:30 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <or5ygpnwf1.fsf@lxoliva.fsfla.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGWvnykKOF=A=LWJ=Rozqx03w3YoCaP+yZ3L8X5+9MFgJ3MO-g@mail.gmail.com> (David Edelsohn's message of "Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:14:50 -0400")

On Oct 11, 2022, David Edelsohn <dje.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:

> open and available for conversations to clarify misunderstandings

Not useful when potential objectors are kept in the dark about the whole
thing.

> and have not used private conversations as public debating points nor for
> divisive purposes

The public claims of broad support used to put pressure for objectors to
give in seem to fit this pattern you deny, if not so much in seeding the
divide created by the then-secret proposal, but in bridging it.

The very purpose of private conversations was claimed by proponents of
the conversation as something to the effect of avoiding objections.

As for purporting key decisions as if in the hands of an advisory
committee, while the final decisions would rest in the hands of another
body whose members would be effectively buying the projects on the
cheap...

All of that, too, speaks for itself.


Anyway, this is all besides the point.  Whether or not there are
nefarious purposes behind it is besides the point.  The key point I
raise is that most people would support and accept something desirable
offered to them at no charge, but many might not upon finding that
there's a very steep price involved in the transaction.  There's no
evidence whatsoever that the costs have been conveyed along with the
dreams to the supposed supporters, so we'd better not take that alleged
support for granted.  The whole process was structured in a certain way,
explicitly for the purpose of sidelining objections.  That does not
inspire the very trust that would be required to agree to turn over
control over our infrastructure.

-- 
Alexandre Oliva, happy hacker                https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo/
   Free Software Activist                       GNU Toolchain Engineer
Disinformation flourishes because many people care deeply about injustice
but very few check the facts.  Ask me about <https://stallmansupport.org>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-10-12 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <d9cb6cf9-89f5-87bb-933b-a03240479e71@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <a9396df3-5699-46ef-0b33-6c7589274654@redhat.com>
2022-10-02 20:47   ` Mark Wielaard
2022-10-04 13:46     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-04 14:01       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-10-04 14:13         ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-04 14:19           ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-10-04 14:33             ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-04 14:41               ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-10-04 14:55                 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-04 15:07                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-10-06 21:42             ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-10-04 17:10       ` Christopher Faylor
2022-10-04 17:17         ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-04 18:42           ` Christopher Faylor
2022-10-04 19:05           ` Mark Wielaard
2022-10-04 19:10             ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-06 20:02               ` Mark Wielaard
2022-10-06 20:12                 ` Christopher Faylor
2022-10-06 21:37                   ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-07 13:39                     ` Mark Wielaard
2022-10-06 21:07                 ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-06 21:36                   ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-10-06 21:44                     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-06 22:57                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-10-11 13:02                         ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-07  8:57                   ` Mark Wielaard
2022-10-11 13:24                     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-11 14:23                       ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-10-11 15:58                     ` Alexandre Oliva
2022-10-11 17:14                       ` David Edelsohn
2022-10-11 18:12                         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2022-10-12  8:00                         ` Mark Wielaard
2022-10-12 13:18                           ` Florian Weimer
2022-10-12 21:23                             ` Mark Wielaard
2022-10-12 15:15                           ` Jonathan Corbet
2022-10-12 10:55                         ` Alexandre Oliva [this message]
     [not found] <b00dc0aa-31a6-a004-a430-099af3d0f6d1@redhat.com>
     [not found] ` <558996ac-e4a0-cf77-48b9-f7d0e13862e8@redhat.com>
2022-10-17 11:48   ` Luis Machado
2022-10-17 12:08     ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-10-17 12:16       ` Luis Machado
2022-10-18 18:45         ` Siddhesh Poyarekar
2022-09-27 20:08 Carlos O'Donell
2022-09-28 22:38 ` Carlos O'Donell

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