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From: Marco Gerards <mgerards@xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 17:17:46 +0200

> No offense, but didn't Okuji implement more than most of us did?  He
> actually wrote all the intial code of GRUB 2 from scratch.

RMS did the same for GCC, but now he concentrates his efforts
on other activities and doesn't pretend to be the GCC maintainer.

> Besides that, a maintainer has to take care that the project remains a
> true GNU project.

I think I know this, as I'm on the GCC steering committee since it's
inception.