This is about being productive and weighing the overall value of things.

The politicisation of software is as harmful as requiring every research paper to be published with a political allegiance banner.

Software like most Sciences, Engineering, and, Trade is a much longer game for humanity than politics de jour.

It is easy to forget the extent of contributions from all sides of politics that has contributed to this trade, from Mohammed Algorithm to English, Russian, Chinese, and, everyone else to computing; but forgetting that and forging that for quick political hack points is a disservice to humanity.

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pixl97 6 hours ago | parent [-]

>Software like most Sciences, Engineering, and Trade are much longer game for humanity than politics de jour.

Not really, software, like sciences and engineering must survive politics first. If humans start tossing around nukes like angry apes then those that survive may be scratching simple arithmetic with a charcoal stick on a cave wall.

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joejoe638 6 hours ago | parent [-]

This take is completely blind to how sciences has worked throughout history of humanity and specifically post major world wars.

Additionally, it is based on a false notion that political banners in software helps in pursuing anyone let alone change political outcomes.

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deathanatos 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Science has absolutely engaged in the politics du jour, including in major world wars. See, for example, the Szilárd petition[1]. (If you need a post-WWII example, those same scientists continued petitioning after the war on the dangers of nukes, too.)

Further, political banners in software have absolute helped, and have changed political outcomes. As an example of that, SOPA, and later PIPA, were defeated by websites such as Wikipedia (which are software) putting banners aimed at informing the public of those bills.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szil%C3%A1rd_petition

	▲	joejoe638 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		A petition and including your political opinions whenever you engage in your trade or profession is not the same. This is the entire point and objection with politicisation of everything.