On 13 Jun 2009, at 01:00, Guido van Rossum wrote:
That's a rather presumptuous statement. Despite the poster's use of SHOUTING I don't see a reason to tell them they should use proprietary software just because you disagree with their politics
Oh, I didn't mean they should use proprietary software, just that in my experience the kind of people who are active in open source are quite anti-war, green, etc. There are notable exceptions, but I know people who worry that their work will have military applications, and who turn down projects because of it. You're more likely to get people who are interested in aviation with some programming background (universities do teach coding to engineers, afterall), than the other way around. Matt