See, this is where I miss being able to non-intrusively add a heart emoji to your post. Here it is anyway: ❤
Wout. On Thu, Oct 25, 2018, 12:11 AM Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote: > On 10/24/18, Michael Falconer <michael.j.falco...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > it's all gone.......while my devout atheism is generally pleased my > > somewhat annoying 'free will, free speech ' ethic has rust on it! > Richard, > > it's your joint and it's such a good place, friendly and mostly > respectful. > > My atheism was NOT offended in any way by all that God speak and I do > > support the notion that you are perfectly entitled to have a CoC and for > it > > to take whatever form you feel appropriate. But I'm an honest guy and > will > > unsub if my un-godliness is just totally unacceptable, but I'll still be > > using SQLite! > > > > My original CoC is still there. It just changed its filename. > https://sqlite.org/codeofethics.html > > If you read the original CoC closely, you will find things that > required me to change it. We have: > > 18. Be a help in times of trouble > 19. Console the sorrowing > 31. Love your enemies > 34. Be not proud > 71. Make peace with your adversary before the sun sets > > Regardless of whether they are right or wrong, some people were > troubled with the Benedictine Rule being called a "Code of Conduct". > It turns out that the term "Code of Conduct" has special significance > to some communities, and if you misuse the term, it causes emotional > distress. If I can relieve that sorrow without compromising my own > values, isn't it right to do so? It took me several days and > countless hours reading enraged tweets to figure this out, but in the > end, the solution was as simple as renaming the offensive "Code of > Conduct" to "Code of Ethics", thus avoiding the > name-of-special-significance, then drop in a pre-packaged CoC in place > of the one that became the CoE, and all is well. Took less than 5 > minutes once I figured out what to do. Who know it was that easy? > > -- > D. Richard Hipp > d...@sqlite.org > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
