Who controls glibc? [LWN.net]

Who controls glibc?

Posted May 8, 2018 4:06 UTC (Tue) by jdulaney (subscriber, #83672)
In reply to: Who controls glibc? by Kalenx
Parent article: Who controls glibc?

It's not unknown, I know the people involved, and was peripherally involved myself.

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Who controls glibc?

Posted May 8, 2018 6:12 UTC (Tue) by Kalenx (subscriber, #120295) [Link]

> It's not unknown, I know the people involved

Sigh...

Look, I really want harrassed people to be able to report their harrasser, especially in tech. I really want people preventing or retaliating against harrassed people coming out to be punished, no matter high or famous they are. I genuinely do.

But read your comments as if you were an outsider. Imagine they were against another person if it helps (not even forcibly in tech). You begin by:

> Is anyone surprised?

as if the following of your comment was common knowledge. Then you state a very serious charge:

> RMS is cool with the FSF firing female employees when they report being harassed.

And the only fact/proof/testimony/conversation/mail/blog/irc log/report to back your argument when someone ask is "I know the people involved". Well, I could have guessed that, it's kind of hard to report someone without knowing them...

Again, I'm not saying that RMS did no wrong here (I just don't know). If he did, this has to be denounced. But by setting the bar so low for such denunciation, anyone can basically report half of the planet the same way.