Richard Stallman <r...@gnu.org> writes:
> > Ricardo also seems to have perceived the Recommendation as
> > authoritarian ("ban") and subjective ("arbitrary rules and personal
> > interpretations of these rules").
>
> Once in a while a person who normally thinks intelligently will
> misunderstand something simple and easy and fly off the handle.
> Such things happen once in sa while,
> We can hope he realizes his misunderstanding.
>
> But it makes no sense to adopt a policy of rejecting simole and easy
> solutions in the hope that people won't fly off the handle.
It is disappointing that you choose to label my judgment of the
discussion, the process that is exemplified by the quality of the
discussion, and the attitudes towards this process as “flying off the
handle”.
This is certainly a more convenient position to take when the
alternative is to acknowledge defects in (or lack of) a
consensus-finding process — not just in how free distributions cooperate
(or rather *don’t*), but in any top-down decision. Unfortunately, this
is a common pattern in GNU and the wider community of free
distributions.
--
Ricardo
