Re: [Freedos-user] FSF

[Rugxulo <ru...@gm...>]

Hi,

On Tue, Mar 30, 2021 at 9:06 AM TK Chia <u10...@ca...> wrote:
>
> > Honestly, he's been known as "very eccentric" for many years. I don't
> > think anybody is surprised. He has opinions and voices them (whether
> > unpopular or not). You know what they say about opinions, right?
> > Everyone has one.
>
> Well, I happen to lurk around on the GCC mailing list.  The impression I
> am getting is that the issue might be much larger than just "someone
> having unpopular opinions": e.g.
> https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-March/235161.html .  Myself, I am
> not sure what to think of it all.

Harassment is not to be tolerated. But there's a difference between
enforcing that and blacklisting an entire organization.

That message implies sexist and racist comments, but it also says some
of it was "'90s hacker humor". And some of the complainers quit in
2004 and 2010, so it's not all recent.

I'm not indifferent to actual problems, i.e. real harassment, but most
times things are blown out of proportion. But I'm not personally
involved (and shouldn't be). I just don't want anyone to overreact
without full facts. Let them have their day in court, so to speak,
let's not punish them ourselves.