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From: Christophe Poncy <christophe@poncy.fr>
Subject: Re: Joint statement on the GNU Project
Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 23:09:59 +0200
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On 2019-10-11 20:41, Taylan Kammer wrote:
> […]  What position does he
> hold within today's GNU project other than being a wise old person
> (wise with respect to his topics of expertise) who is respected a lot?
> 

As a simple user, I see him as the guardian of the temple ("Chief 
GNUisance"), and that reassures me because he embodies the free software 
philosophy on its own.

> the maintainers and contributors collectively
> hold a lot more power than any single person.

IMO, the GNU essence is more powerful than the sum of its hackers.

> So in a way I guess I  don't really see what the statement
> is trying to accomplish

It visibly sets the scapegoat mechanism in motion, see 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scapegoating#Scapegoat_mechanism