<div dir="ltr">Hi Philip,<br><div> what a difficult question... </div><div> For these topics what I try to do is "teach by example".<br> I will not develop software that I know will hurt people in any way and I will try to prevent people who work with me from doing it.<br> How the rest of the people use the software is out of my reach and it is impossible to restrict and prohibit it<br></div><div><br></div><div>Hernan.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 3:47 PM Philip Bernhart via Cuis-dev <<a href="mailto:cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st">cuis-dev@lists.cuis.st</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Hi folks,<br>
<br>
today I had a quiet annoying "debate" with someone I know<br>
on the internet. XKCD for reference for the feeling of it:<br>
<a href="https://xkcd.com/386" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://xkcd.com/386</a>.<br>
<br>
So I always wondered what the political statements and movements<br>
were in Smalltalk or even Cuis Smalltalk. Squeak, Pharo and Cuis<br>
did chose the very political MIT License as their License of choice.<br>
<br>
Smalltalk was financed partially from the ARPA, so actually quiet<br>
political, right? When you consider that you can't escape making<br>
in some way political relevant decisions, then does that mean<br>
automatically that the Smalltalk community "thinks" it's good that<br>
their "open source" code is used within weapon systems. Maybe even<br>
in the context of Kapital to mess up finance systems or indirectly<br>
by using within Lam Research for producing circuits which could be<br>
used in war drones, etc.<br>
<br>
Most of us I would think are spending their time toying around with<br>
Smalltalk, not considering every aspect of how we indirectly affect<br>
other people around the globe with our "naive" mind of just liking<br>
what we are doing.<br>
<br>
<br>
So what do you think, should we spend more time on that side?<br>
Philip<br>
<br>
<br>
PS: I got some popcorn here and I'm resting in a comfy chair.<br>
PPS: The current Yerba Mate infusion also adds to it.<br>
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