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Branden Robinson" To: Alejandro Colomar Cc: Sam James , Joseph Myers , linux-man@vger.kernel.org, Keith Bostic , Mark Harris , Nevin Liber , JeanHeyd Meneide , Christopher Bazley , "Serge E. Hallyn" , Iker Pedrosa , "Evgeny Grin (Karlson2k)" , Kees Cook , bug-gnulib@gnu.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Douglas McIlroy Subject: Re: on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform Message-ID: <20260801205226.jta53rrxkglmpv6q@illithid> References: <784288e704183a4297aeaa3d13af8edab18bc1ea.1785532392.git.alx@kernel.org> <20260731215122.4p4aepsbgeoibx74@illithid> <87a4r6es6k.fsf@gentoo.org> <87y0epdhxp.fsf@gentoo.org> <20260801201849.hzg6ufqxmwi2efzz@illithid> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lug462fc46ecvvug" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: --lug462fc46ecvvug Content-Type: text/plain; protected-headers=v1; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: on the irresponsibility of pursuing C language reform MIME-Version: 1.0 Hi Alex, At 2026-08-01T22:42:09+0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > That's public, and has been since the begining. It's published in the > git repository: I knew it was there somewhere. (I see now--prominently, even!) > $ cat SPONSORS > Google > Hudson River Trading > Meta I don't think many occasions call for you to quote the file contents. In your position I would simply have the URL to this file handy for any occasion where someone takes a run at my transparency. In fact I think your approach to disclosure is near-optimal. In my view it is strongly superior to slathering acknowledgements of your sponsors on all of your emails in your capacity as Linux man-pages maintainer, which would degrade software engineering into something like NASCAR. (There I go, alienating yet another fan community...) 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