> Sent: Sunday, April 11, 2021 at 3:17 AM > From: "Thomas Rodgers" <rodg...@appliantology.com> > To: "Christopher Dimech" <dim...@gmx.com> > Cc: "David Brown" <david.br...@hesbynett.no>, g...@gnu.org > Subject: Re: GCC association with the FSF > > On 2021-04-09 14:34, Christopher Dimech wrote: > > >> On the contrary, I eagerly await each and every one of your missives > >> on > >> this topic, hoping for exactly that very thing to occur. > > > I do not see how you and your friends at redhat could really get any > > value > > from it, because being a seeker of truth means refusing to make > > assumptions > > about things that you do not know. The moment you assume that you know > > because > > of what you believe, your intelligence will sleep. It is my wish and my > > blessing > > that every human being has their intelligence awake. > > On 2021-04-10 07:49, Christopher Dimech via Gcc wrote: > > >> There is a big difference between suppression or censorship, and > >> wanting > >> people in leadership positions to be representative of the values of > >> the > >> group they lead. RMS can have all the opinions he wants, and act has > >> he > >> will (until he ends up arrested for it), but if he is to remain a > >> representative for others (FSF, GNU and/or GCC), then he has a duty to > >> act appropriately according to the values those organisations think > >> are > >> important. > > If you look at the history of computing you will find that it was > > mostly > > crooks and people of very mixed kind of qualities. Not al all saints. > > Many of them quite unscrupolous and not very clever. And still they > > managed > > to do great things. > > > > So it tells a kid: They could do that, why can't you? That was > > certainly what turned me on. Freedom 0 also says "The freedom to run > > a program as you wish, for any purpose". > > > > Should we get our ideas from politicians and bureaucrats; or from > > Aleksandr > > Solzhenitsyn, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ernest > > Hemingway, > > Aldous Huxley, Marie-Henri Beyle, and Emily Jane Brontë? From the > > latter > > of course! > > So, that's a solid 'no' on the likelihood of you contributing anything > of value > to the discussion of GCC governance then?
There are many instances when one has to work with people, even though one does not personally like them. I have worked with others in the Free Software Community that have placed themselves on the opposite side of the debate. And have no intention of stopping them working. I also worked with others, including MEPs in Brussels, etc. There's no way out of it. Eventually, one has to get out of bed and face the world. Irrespective of the attitudes that we take on what we like, and on what we don't like. I like this person, I don't like this person. Now with this person, I will do things willingly. With this other person, I will do things unwillingly. But the reality is that everybody is oscillating between a good person and a bad person. It is important to understand this. If you create a very pleasant wonderful atmosphere, everybody behaves wonderfully. If you create an unpleasant atmosphere, a whole lot of people act nasty. That's how it is. The moment we think we are good, we are entitled to destroy the bad, isn't it? Regards Christopher
