Just for the record, I was not talking about developers but about the 
leadership of the project, Ian.

8 out of 13 members of the Steering Committee are from US-corporations.

This is a fact.


Just like the weird relations some of these companies have had with US 
Government:
https://www.virtualthreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/nsa-google-cloud-exploitation.jpg

The implications are left as an exercise for the readers. ;-)


Giacomo

On April 9, 2021 9:40:33 PM UTC, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 9, 2021, 1:04 PM Giacomo Tesio <giac...@tesio.it> wrote:
> 
> > Hi John,
> >
> > On April 9, 2021 6:36:31 PM UTC, John Darrington <
> > j...@darrington.wattle.id.au> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 07:01:07PM +0200, David Brown wrote:
> > >
> > >      Different opinions are fine.  Bringing national or
> international
> > >  politics into the discussion (presumably meant to be as an
> insult) is
> > >  not fine.  This is not a political discussion - please stop
> trying to
> > >      make it one.
> > >
> > > For the record it was David who first brought up the political
> >
> > I think David was talking about me:
> > https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-April/235285.html
> >
> > It was not meant to insult anybody, I was just asking to fix a
> serious
> > problem in GCC.
> >
> > Since it's clear that the Steering Committee doesn't want to address
> it,
> > I'm moving on.
> >
> >
> > GCC is clearly an US-only project.
> > A US-corporate one. Totally SFW (in the US).
> >
> > This is not intended as an insult.
> > It's just a fact.
> >
> 
> Just for the record, for other readers, this is not even remotely
> true.
> 
> Ian

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