RMS announced at a talk he's releasing an unofficial GNU C manual:
>I have written a manual for GNU C, and the Free Software Foundation is going to publish it in not-too-terribly long. Now, why do I say it's a manual for GNU C? It does not try to describe the C standard β because that would be tremendously complicated, and tremendously hard to use.
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>I have written a manual for GNU C, and the Free Software Foundation is going to publish it in not-too-terribly long. Now, why do I say it's a manual for GNU C? It does not try to describe the C standard β because that would be tremendously complicated, and tremendously hard to use.
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Elizafox, online friend
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Elizafox, online friend
in reply to Elizafox, online friend • • •* He didn't notify the GCC mailing list, he just announced it at a talk
* He hasn't contributed to GCC in 20 years, and it's in C++ now, a language RMS neither uses nor likes
* RMS is clearly bypassing mechanisms of accountability to push his views, which likely don't reflect those of the actual maintainers of GCC
* If you read it based on his past history, he clearly is claiming ultimate authority over GCC, and dictating GCC policy unilaterally, bypassing the SC
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Adrian Cochrane
in reply to Elizafox, online friend • • •You mean like last year when he didn't notify the FSF employees he was returning the board? And incorrectly stated they didn't have expertise to create a proper announcement video?
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Elizafox, online friend
in reply to Elizafox, online friend • • •https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc/2021-March/235091.html
This excellent email sums things up nicely as to why RMS shouldn't be in charge of anything more sophisticated than a hot dog stand.
Remove RMS from the GCC Steering Committee
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