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> No one is required to follow The Rule...[The SQLite developers] view The Rule as their promise to all SQLite users of how the developers are expected to behav
by throwanem 5y ago
> No one is required to follow The Rule...[The SQLite developers] view The Rule as their promise to all SQLite users of how the developers are expected to behave. This is a one-way promise, or covenant. In other words, the developers are saying: "We will treat you this way regardless of how you treat us."
I don't see a problem here, despite my own disinterest in following the Christian faith or any other. It's not hard to distinguish what's applicable from what's not in the verbatim quote of the Rule as given in the document, and if I had maintained my childhood Catholicism I too might demur from merely excerpting a saint.
Had anyone involved with SQLite mistreated someone for not happening to share their faith, I would expect it quite quickly to become public knowledge at least in the community including HN. I haven't heard such a report. Have you?
- thepasswordis 5y agoIn fact, that would go against their code of ethics.
- throwanem 5y agoWhile true, I suspect this may not reliably qualify as a compelling argument for someone disposed to raise prima facie concerns about the same code of ethics because it makes open reference to deity. Then again, I suppose an argument from behavior may also be less likely to convince an interlocutor more inclined to concern with what someone else believes than with how they actually behave. So it goes.
- ziml77 5y agoIt put me off until I read that part about the code that's laid out being optional. They're not forcing anything on anyone. I'm perfectly fine with that.