On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Dag Sverre Seljebotn <da...@student.matnat.uio.no> wrote: >>> Yep, you're right, they're political restrictions, and "geographic >>> restrictions" was a euphemism. I'm a huge believer in open source, but >>> personally, these political restrictions don't bother me at all. >>> However, you and Stefan had already both chimed in saying they did >>> bother you, so I'm very happy to pick another hosting option with no >>> argument, which is what I think I said above. I generally loathe >>> political debate, and I think cython-dev is a wildly inappropriate >>> place for it. >>> >> If we see a powerful country trying to exclude less powerful countries >> from what we believe to be valid discourse, then, to say and do >> nothing is an act of passive agreement that not all of us can accept. >> >> We state our principles, and we try to follow them; when we agree, we >> do not have to discuss them. The principles under which we operate >> are one of the great strengths of the open-source idea and the energy >> that we give to our projects. >> > > Others have said what really needs to be said, but I'd really like to > make a point that it is worth bearing in mind that each person always > has an individual set of reasons for contributing his or her time to > open source development. > > Some do it because of politics or principles about freedom. Some just > wants to learn. Some just wants a challenge. Some just wants to improve > the tool to do research more efficiently, or to make money faster. > > Cython is not even under the GPL but Apache, so there's an invitation to > join for pretty much whatever reason. We can't really assume anything > about any of the political views of the authors just by them being > Cython contributors alone.
Oh dear - I'm sorry, I could not resist the temptation to reply. There's a difference between politics and principles. I don't like politics very much, but I care a lot about principles, and my experience has been that the same is true of many open source coders. It's a founding principle of open source that we (I mean, open source developers) do not discriminate against persons or groups [1]. I feel strongly about that, and I hope that y'all do to. I'm not claiming any right to have a say, other than the right of any person to appeal to the basic principles of open source. See you, Matthew _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list Cython-dev@codespeak.net http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
