[gmx-developers] Ideologically biased quotes

[David van der Spoel]

On 07/12/16 13:05, Erik Lindahl wrote:
> 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 :-)

I guess I'm one of the "guilty" ones. Let's not restart the long 
discussions we had some years ago. Just please commit a change removing 
"offensive" quotes.

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