Re: proposed speaker guidelines

[Richard Stallman <rms gnu org>]

    Richard, I'm fairly certain these guidelines are more about not making
    the audience uncomfortable when prominent speakers make sexist
    remarks, or remarks critical of religion,

If the policy is clearly limited to such activities and comparable
ones, I would not object to it.  I did not do either of those things
at GUADEC (though I was inaccurately accused of doing one of them).

If the intent is not to restrict what people say about technical and
legal issues, I suggest clarifying the guidelines to make that clear.

However, technical and legal issues are not the only ones that need to
be admissible--ethical issues are also vital to talk about.  The C#
issue I addresses is basically an ethical issue, though technical and
legal aspects come into it.

Whatever the criteria are, they have to be objective at least in
principle.  They would still depend on judgment; that is inevitable.
But if they are not objective in principle, they amount to "anyone can
veto anything".