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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resignsGNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resignsPosted Dec 23, 2012 3:11 UTC (Sun) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns by udp Parent article: GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns If it were up to RMS, GCC never would have been permitted to switch to C++, but RMS doesn't get a veto over technical matters with GCC, only with issues that affect core free software principles (and even those issues can be very sticky). One nice feature of LLVM is that the competition has made it easier to push back against RMS's innate conservatism. His typical reaction to significant proposals has often been something like: this change might be exploitable by the enemies of free software, so let's not do anything but talk about it for a year and a half. Now we can say that if he blocks features that users and developers want and need, everyone will drop GCC and switch to LLVM. He now seems to get this, so it's been easier lately.
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GNU sed 4.2.2 released; maintainer resigns Posted Dec 26, 2012 22:27 UTC (Wed) by stevenb (guest, #11536) [Link]
How cynical, that you'd need another, competing project to change RMS's mind. Does he also "get" that by the time it's gotten that far, it may already be too late?
I've contributed to GCC for many years now, but and it's still a complete mystery to me why the EGCS project had to merge back and become GCC. I can't help feeling that EGCS stand-alone, without the "help" of the FSF and RMS, would have been much better off, long term.
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