Several of you work closely with GNU people. A question for you. Is the FSF a body like the IETF, W3C or Debian in which stakeholders make reasonably collaborative policy decisions together? Or is "FSF policy" more or less another name for "the views of Richard M. Stallman"? (Or does the reality lie somewhere in between, or elsewhere entirely?) Either way would be okay, but the answer will help me to order my own thoughts in the GFDL/DFSG matter. With the kernel people, when Linus Torvalds forms an opinion or makes a decision, there is no mystery where it came from. It is "Linus' opinion" or "Linus' decision", not "Linux Kernel Foundation policy". The whole "FSF policy" thing confuses me, because I do not know whose policy it is, or how it is arrived at. If you can shed some light on this, I'd appreciate it.
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