Who controls glibc?
The discussion is a proxy for how executive decisions are made for glibc, and in particular by whom.<p>The merit of a stale joke from the 90s is meaningless, and posturing about its appropriateness is disingenuous. Open source principals have always been eccentric (Torvalds, Raymond(!), etc.), and the FOSS community tolerated it not only because of their technical contributions, but because the open source community itself is an expression of tolerance based on shared objectives.<p>Of course others would like to wield their influence in the generation of the DNA of the internet, and there is a tremendous amount to be gained by scandalizing, discrediting, and isolating its core maintainers.<p>Perhaps eventually RMS will come around and remove the joke himself, after finding it does not stand the test of time. But it would go a long way to resolving this if they could demonstrate they aren&#x27;t just using the joke as a pretext for scandal to undermine the decision making structure of a project.<p>It&#x27;s clearly not about the joke.