> Drawing one conclusion is not drawing 'too many conclusions'. And, > there is no evidence that this is a "once in a lifetime" issue. Quite > the contrary.
What's the evidence to the contrary? When else has the FSF made a request that affects *development* as opposed to a release (other than licensing and issues affecting the principle of free software, which everybody agrees they have a right to)? > Well, maybe you have the wrong understanding. In the past, on many > occasions, we have acted on the premise that FSF does not have to > interfere with technical decisions made GCC developers. And you > certainly never came hard asserting the opposite. I don't think you meant what you wrote. Nobody said that the FSF *has to* interfere with technical decisions, nor that they, as a matter of usual course, *do* interfere with them. The issue is whether they, as the owner of the project, *can* interfere with them if they so choose. And it's always been clear to me (and, from his response, to Mark) that they can.
