| Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] Open Software without Free Trade. |
+1
I am deeply horrified by what I see going on in the world today
and of course support any all constructive measures to make it
stop. That being said, the software we build today could well get
installed years from now, and a reminder of the current appalling,
social disaster is not something we should hard-code into that
software, in my opinion.
The following page comes up once whenever the URL is changed in the product catalog:
https://www.eclipse.org/setups/donate/?scope=Eclipse.org&campaign=2021-12
E.g., it will come up again when campaign=2022-03 is changed.
That might be a more appropriate place. Another place would be
the download page itself, but that is managed by the Foundation.
In the end though, I'm not sure how I feel about everything in
this world becoming politicized, including Eclipse.org. At the
same time, condoning appalling behavior through inaction is also
not a high virtue.
Regards,
Ed
I appreciate your political engagement Jörg, but I believe the software is not the right place to express any political statements, independently how important they are. There are many other ways to publicly express any political opinions one may have, and surely Eclipse Foundation can issue a statement regarding current situation. I personally don't want to be reminded about war (or any other bad things like hunger, AIDS, global warming) while waiting on the software to start. The splash screen hurts me personally *a lot*, because I have relatives and friends in *both* countries. I'm very sad about the war, seeing this splash again and again is like an open wound that reminds me about pain. I would appreciate if we consider not to add any reminder about the war to Eclipse software. Am 1. März 2022 19:30:59 MEZ schrieb "Jörg Kubitz" <jkubitz-eclipse@xxxxxx>:So here is my proposal: Splash screen for 4.23 (2022-03) "Make software not War" https://git.eclipse.org/r/c/platform/eclipse.platform/+/191325/1/platform/org.eclipse.platform/splash.pngWhat about changing the splash screen (bug 575781) to a message (for example Ukraine flag blue + yellow).Perhaps. But ultimately that is a project decision.-- Kind regards, Andrey Loskutov https://www.eclipse.org/user/aloskutov Спасение утопающих - дело рук самих утопающих _______________________________________________ cross-project-issues-dev mailing list cross-project-issues-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this list, visit https://www.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/cross-project-issues-dev
