Who controls glibc? [LWN.net]

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 7, 2018 20:30 UTC (Mon) by jmanig (guest, #120108)
In reply to: Who controls glibc? by ami
Parent article: Who controls glibc?

It seems to be a political statement disguised as a joke, and that it's why Stallman want to keep it around to begin with. Not to go too 2018 on everyone here, but I'd be leery of large projects employing people from electic walks of life embarking on potentially divisive topics such as this one.

I don't even know how to feel about this one. On one hand, you could argue there's already precedent, such as Ulrich Drepper's character assassination of Stallman in the glibc 2.2.4 release notes.

On the other, well... Stallman is kind of proving Drepper's point here.

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Who controls glibc?

Posted May 7, 2018 23:48 UTC (Mon) by ploxiln (subscriber, #58395) [Link] (1 responses)

Wow, I didn't know about that, link for others: https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-announce/2001/msg00000.html

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 8, 2018 2:59 UTC (Tue) by unixbhaskar (guest, #44758) [Link]

Thanks a bunch for the pointer, I didn't know it either.

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 8, 2018 13:33 UTC (Tue) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

I'd say Drepper himself is prior art for glibc shedding tasteless, needlessly offensive jokes that harm the project's public image. If they can do that, they can get rid of this too. There is plenty more work to be done in this area (a few other nasty pieces of work need the boot), but maintaining the positive momentum would be a start.

This joke came from the toilet humour culture of 90s America and should have stayed there, like all other offense-driven development. Even Microsoft grew up. It's time for GNU to do the same.