Somebody back in 2015 mentioned a relevant response to Richard Stallman from David Kastrup[1]. It's brilliant.

Did he convince other GCC devs with that post? Mentor younger devs on free software strategy?

What's happened in the ten years since?

C'mon GCC mailing list lurkers-- spill the tea! :)

1: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2015-02/msg00...