<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I blew off Pharo because there was a discussion going on revolving about a left-wing “Code of Conduct” and the general intolerance to other views. I hope it doesn’t spread to other Smalltalks. <div dir="ltr">/—————————————————————/<div>For encrypted mail use jgpfersich@protonmail.com - Free account at ProtonMail.com<div>Web: https://objectnets.net and https://objectnets.org</div></div><div>https://datascilv.com https://datascilv.org</div><div> </div></div><div dir="ltr"> <blockquote type="cite">On Jun 13, 2020, at 11:47, Philip Bernhart via Cuis-dev <cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st> wrote: </blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">Hi folks, today I had a quiet annoying "debate" with someone I know on the internet. XKCD for reference for the feeling of it: https://xkcd.com/386. So I always wondered what the political statements and movements were in Smalltalk or even Cuis Smalltalk. Squeak, Pharo and Cuis did chose the very political MIT License as their License of choice. Smalltalk was financed partially from the ARPA, so actually quiet political, right? When you consider that you can't escape making in some way political relevant decisions, then does that mean automatically that the Smalltalk community "thinks" it's good that their "open source" code is used within weapon systems. Maybe even in the context of Kapital to mess up finance systems or indirectly by using within Lam Research for producing circuits which could be used in war drones, etc. Most of us I would think are spending their time toying around with Smalltalk, not considering every aspect of how we indirectly affect other people around the globe with our "naive" mind of just liking what we are doing. So what do you think, should we spend more time on that side? Philip PS: I got some popcorn here and I'm resting in a comfy chair. PPS: The current Yerba Mate infusion also adds to it. -- Cuis-dev mailing list Cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st https://lists.cuis.st/mailman/listinfo/cuis-dev </div></blockquote></body></html>