Dear Colleagues,
I think that it may be time to patch the GiNaC web page. The
passed months showed that the situation is much more complicated and
dangerous than we may think back in March. Current information flows are
full of fakes, manipulations and war-time propaganda. The sequence of
events will be a subject for heated debates for decades to come.
Yet, I cannot see a side which is advocating an end of the war unless
it will be their complete victory. Deaths and suffering of Ukraine
population are not considered as an obstacle towards the designated
goals.
Thus I propose to delete the following sentences from the statement:
"We must make the Russian government understand the value and prospect
of peaceful cooperation and end this war now."
Also I propose to leave the previous sentence
"We strongly support the call for peace in Ukraine."
but without the link in it. In my opinion, the quoted letter is not free
from a bias which reduces the peaceful call in the sentence.
Alternatively, we may delete the whole statement all together. Calling
for peace we shall do the first step ourselves by not taking a side in
the ongoing war.
Best wishes,
Vladimir
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>>>>> On Mon, 7 Mar 2022 10:07:53 +0000, "Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel(a)in.terlu.de> said:
RK> Dear Vladimir,
RK> You made a very good point. I hope you appreciate the slightly
RK> modified version. Thank you!
RK> -richard.
RK> On 07.03.22 00:33, Vladimir V. Kisil wrote:
>> I was always admired by the careful and considerate approach of
>> GiNaC team to code alterations. It is well justified in
>> complicated systems since a single human can easily oversee some
>> important connections and unintentionally break functionality.
>>
>> Being busy with our various duties we may not have enough time to
>> follow all world events in their historic development and may
>> have limited resources to analyse evidences as carefully as we
>> try to do this in science or coding.
>>
>> Being a citizen of Ukraine I am willing to stop casualties of
>> peaceful residents and enormous destruction to their life. But I
>> believe this requires an appeals not to Russia only. There are
>> many countries deeply evolved in this conflict and most of them
>> are only supplying massive warfare to fuel it even
>> further. People in Ukraine are suffering because THEIR LIVES ARE
>> NOT MATTER to anyone at all.
>>
>> If you wish to raise a voice on this very hot and controversial
>> situation you may want to be as careful as you usually do
>> applying a patch.
>>
>> Best wishes, Vladimir