Excerpt:<p>"...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.<p>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..."