On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Brandon Craig Rhodes < [email protected]> wrote:
> Python already has a reputation for being undeployable in an emergency > because PyPI does not stay up consistency enough. Please imagine the > violence this will do to lone, hard-working Python supporters in the > back server rooms of big organizations, if they have to explain to their > bosses that the new web app cannot be deployed today; that they cannot > set up their old virtualenv's on their new laptop's hard drive; and that > they cannot even read any documentation, because of a protest going on > against a law over in the United States. > > Shutting down the already-unreliable Python web infrastructure yet again > would not harm the SOPA supporters in the United States Congress. But > it would harm our community the world over, and damage our reputation, > while not doing a whit to prevent SOPA from passing. > > Python should strive to be the always-available, always-up, always-to- > the-rescue language for programmers everywhere. Our form of protest > should be to become *more* available, *more* reliable; to reach out with > resources to programmers in countries that try to block python.org; and > to remain up until the very last moment, even if open-source one day has > to go underground. > > Shutting down ahead of time would simply be to poke ourselves in our own > collective eyeball. > +1000 This reminds me of a parellel that I saw both as a student and as a prof. Students would decide to go on strike to protest some issue. Who was penalized by the strike? Certainly not the school administration, nor the profs, nor the government: it was the students themselves. Protests are not very effective when it is the protesters (or their immediate community and/or allies) that are inconvenienced. Adding some sort of information banner about SOPA, it if is easily feasible, might be a good idea. But inconveniencing Python users is not, imo, a good idea at this time. André Roberge > > pydotorg-www mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www >
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