"...I'm pretty certain that
if any of the anti-CLA people start this discussion first it will be
hijacked and used to strong-arm the Emacs community and the GNU
community at large into abandoning the requirement for a contributor
license agreement relying on a torrential flood of messages posted by
anti-CLA utilitarians, and resulting in an influx of low-quality
contributions.
It helps less that RMS recently has been deposed from the GCC steering
committee by a bunch of professional consent-manufacturers who should
not have been given computers at an early age, which is emboldening them
to become more aggressive and demanding towards other GNU projects..."
"...I'm pretty certain that if any of the anti-CLA people start this discussion first it will be hijacked and used to strong-arm the Emacs community and the GNU community at large into abandoning the requirement for a contributor license agreement relying on a torrential flood of messages posted by anti-CLA utilitarians, and resulting in an influx of low-quality contributions.
It helps less that RMS recently has been deposed from the GCC steering committee by a bunch of professional consent-manufacturers who should not have been given computers at an early age, which is emboldening them to become more aggressive and demanding towards other GNU projects..."