On 11/18/2010 10:03 PM, Matthew Brett wrote: > Hi, > > >> 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. (But, a priori, one can perhaps speculate that people would be more willing to work on Cython for pragmatic reasons alone than, say, Gnome or KDE, which are more going heads on against commercial alternatives.) Dag Sverre _______________________________________________ Cython-dev mailing list [email protected] http://codespeak.net/mailman/listinfo/cython-dev
