On 2020-02-12 15:19, I wrote:
The GNU project should also critically evaluate externally imposed requirements and reject bad ones, including ones coming from standards bodies like ISO and IEE.
Turns out, this is basically covered in the GNU Coding Standards. https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Non_002dGNU-Standards.html#Non_002dGNU-Standards "The GNU Project regards standards published by other organizations as suggestions, not orders. We consider those standards, but we do not “obey” them. In developing a GNU program, you should implement an outside standard’s specifications when that makes the GNU system better overall in an objective sense. When it doesn’t, you shouldn’t."
