Re: Contradictiory directions

[Richard Stallman]

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You're entitled to have a political preference about the name for the
principal branch in a repo, but the GNU Project takes a firmly neutral
stance on the matter.

The GNU Project is dedicated to the cause of software freedom.  We
also defend basic human rights, such as freedom of speech.  (If Emacs
design decisions could actually free slaves, that would be an
important design consideration, but they can't.)  Other political
issues are unrelated and extraneous.

As you said, being neutral on a political issue does not mean simply
disregarding it.  Our neutrality on extraneous issues is an active
stance.  It means that participants who have views on unrelated
political issues should not try to argue about them here.

One general fact about those political issues is that people disagree
on them.  We want people with various views to be welcome to
participate in GNU development.  Participants must not argue about
extraneous issues; and especially they must not try to pressure the
rest of us into yieldihg.  That is way, way beyond the line.

You can advocate your views on unrelated political issues in the rest
of your life -- we all can.  Outside, we may agree on some extraneous
issues while clashing on other extraneous issues.  Please don't bring
those disagreements in here.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)