Re: Endorsing version 1.0 of the GNU Social Contract

[John Darrington]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 09:26:03PM +0000, Daniel Pocock wrote:
> 
> People are welcome to endorse the social contract (or any other
> document, like the Bible or the Koran) if they wish


Of course.

> 
> However, how is that relevant if some people endorse it and others don't?

It is not.

> 
> Could it be better to work from the ground up, to document the points
> which almost everybody agrees on before talking about the points that
> are controversial?

We have already done that.    

It was discussed at length between all interested maintainers, and the result
has been formally codified here:

 https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/kind-communication.html

and the reasons why the particular words were chosen and why some were not
are explained here:

 https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2018-10/msg00001.html


There is no intention to change this, so further discusssion is moot. 
"Endorsing" (or not) some random set of people's other ideas is not
going to change anything.

J'