[Cuis-dev] Politics of Smalltalk

[Hernan Wilkinson]

Hi Philip,
 what a difficult question...
 For these topics what I try to do is "teach by example".
 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.
 How the rest of the people use the software is out of my reach and it is
impossible to restrict and prohibit it

Hernan.

On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 3:47 PM Philip Bernhart via Cuis-dev <
cuis-dev at lists.cuis.st> wrote:

> 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.
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