Ethics in Julia

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A weapons company could come by use your code/idea/algorithm and go profit from killing thousands of innocent civilians in a war-torn country just in the same way an undergrad working on their capstone projects could use it to do something innovative and get into a nice school, or JuliaComputing could bundle it up and sell it as part of their software offerings, etc

You may remember the thread about telemetry, and this post:

Pkg.jl telemetry should be opt-in

ok, since I’ve been mentioned twice here, I figure I should chime in on this trainwreck. I have no issues with respect to user privacy. My objection stems from the fact that code I freely contributed to the Julia language is now going to be used, without any prior discussion, as a way for Julia Computing – an organization that didn’t exist when my first registry PR was merged – to raise revenue. I object to this use of my code, though I realize there’s little I can do about it given its open-so…

This poster left the community apparently and deleted his account here, because he felt that his code was missused. All happened inside this community. That’s where we have to look at first, inside our community. How can we act, how can we talk, what can we do or don’t do, so that these (extremes, arguable) doesn’t happen. Or happen at a minimum. Although he doesn’t want to be @, i do it nevertheless ( , I know provocative), because he @chakravala, nearly was, not so long ago, lost for this community. Probably, as always, because of minor (in the grand scope of view) missunderstandings and in succession not so wise words.