[gmx-developers] Ideologically biased quotes

[Erik Lindahl]

Hi Vedran,

Partly agree. There are a couple of recent purely political quotes that
should probably go; I have no particular interest in staying 'neutral', but
I think it's a reasonable requirement that there should be a direct
connection to science/engineering/programming - otherwise we might soon end
up with a torrent of quotes that are completely unrelated to what we do,
and that would be a shame.

On the other hand, I don't want us to be too touchy either, but in
particular when it comes to contentious topics it's probably a good idea to
consider adding a couple of jokes from both points-of-view rather than
pushing your own ideas. Personally I think it would be pretty fun to have a
couple of pro-religion jokes about science, but I haven't been very good at
finding them :-)

Cheers,

Erik


Cheers,

Erik



On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Vedran Miletić <vedran at miletic.net> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I say the following in a very calm voice, just as a suggestion, since I
> expect it to be a charged topic.
>
> Could we in the future avoid including ideologically biased quotes
> promoting either side of whatever is the current (or eternal) debate in
> society? I would much prefer if GROMACS was neutral on all issues
> unrelated to science and software development.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Vedran
>
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