Hi, We've long protested against software patentability on the GiNaC web site. In my opinion it is now time to shift focus. I have removed the Anti Software Patents Demonstration and propose to replace it with this text tomorrow morning: Call for the End of War in Ukraine The pursuit of truth is a unifying element of all scientists. And science thrives best in international cooperation. Scientists and developers from many countries, including Russia and Ukraine, have contributed to GiNaC. Without these contributions, it would not be what it is today. We strongly support the call for peace [1]. We must make the Russian government understand the value and prospect of peaceful cooperation – they must end this war now and re-enable cooperation on all fields. Let's make science, not war! [1] <https://trv-science.ru/2022/02/we-are-against-war-all/> (Russian translation to follow.) I am posting this here to avoid some contributor being offended. I am also fully aware that this may be considered off-topic. If so, you're welcome to voice this here. -richy. -- Richard B. Kreckel <https://in.terlu.de/~kreckel/>
Dear Richard, 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 -- Vladimir V. Kisil http://www.maths.leeds.ac.uk/~kisilv/ Book: Geometry of Mobius Maps https://doi.org/10.1142/p835 Soft: Geometry of cycles http://moebinv.sourceforge.net/ Jupyter notebooks: https://github.com/vvkisil?tab=repositories
On Sun, 6 Mar 2022 14:49:39 +0100, "Richard B. Kreckel" <kreckel@in.terlu.de> said:
RK> Hi, RK> We've long protested against software patentability on the GiNaC RK> web site. In my opinion it is now time to shift focus. RK> I have removed the Anti Software Patents Demonstration and RK> propose to replace it with this text tomorrow morning: RK> Call for the End of War in Ukraine RK> The pursuit of truth is a unifying element of all scientists. RK> And science thrives best in international RK> cooperation. Scientists and developers from many countries, RK> including Russia and Ukraine, have contributed to GiNaC. Without RK> these contributions, it would not be what it is today. RK> We strongly support the call for peace [1]. We must make the RK> Russian government understand the value and prospect of peaceful RK> cooperation – they must end this war now and re-enable RK> cooperation on all fields. RK> Let's make science, not war! RK> [1] <https://trv-science.ru/2022/02/we-are-against-war-all/> RK> (Russian translation to follow.) RK> I am posting this here to avoid some contributor being RK> offended. I am also fully aware that this may be considered RK> off-topic. If so, you're welcome to voice this here. RK> -richy. -- Richard B. Kreckel <https://in.terlu.de/~kreckel/>
Dear Vladimir, You made a very good point. I hope you appreciate the slightly modified version. Thank you! -richard. 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
participants (2)
-
Richard B. Kreckel
-
Vladimir V. Kisil