Re: Nominations for Anthropic’s Claude for Open Source program

[Carlos O'Donell via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>]

On 6/15/26 7:39 AM, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Fri, 2026-06-12 at 16:11 -0700, Andrew Pinski via Gdb wrote:
>> All of this talk about llm and llm reviews is off-topic for this list.
>> Including the original email is off-topic and should not have been sent.
> 
> Agreed, promoting the use of a commercial, non-free, proprietary llm
> through a saas model is not appropriate and off-topic for the GNU
> development lists.

I disagree.

For all the reasons David lists here and more:
https://inbox.sourceware.org/gcc/CAGWvnyk1x47jPWs3ML01J-TrgKt8ByALj3HzPpZodVS_73VSBg@mail.gmail.com/

We should always be able to *talk* about non-free alternatives, how to use
them, what they do, how to create alternatives, and how to move away from them.

We don't want to require anyone to use these tools and we don't.

>> Carlos,
>>    Can you step down from the llm gcc working group for this email since it
>> shows a conflict of interest of prompting one product.  Plus it shows poor
>> taste of sending out an email about a non free product to a mailing list
>> about glibc development.
>> Can I also ask you to step down from CoC for violating the CoC here?
> 
> Yeah. It is hard to not see a pattern here. But not sure it is enough
> for banning someone. And we all make mistakes from time to time. But we
> do want to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest.
Sorry, could you please expand on the pattern you see?

I will raise this with the WG lead Jonathan Wakely this Friday, and ask
the WG's opinion if they believe I can be impartial.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.