SQLite Code of Ethics

30 pointsposted 12 hours ago
by zdgeier
(sqlite.org)

12 Comments

deadeye

38 minutes ago

It's nice to see some humble people inside the tech space.

Too many of us believe we are gods as we command our machines to do our will. That was me once.

kh_hk

3 hours ago

Regardless of my own view on these ethics, the quality of SQLite is for me a testament to the usefulness of truthfully adhering to a (sub)set of noble precepts.

jtrn

3 hours ago

One could probably argue that, if interpreted in a certain way, most of these laws/rules could be good. Even the god praising could be seen positively if one subtly transforms "god" into something like "that which is good," as many secular philosophers have done.

However, this rule cannot be shown to be universally good, regardless of interpretation:

"Obey in all things the commands of those whom God has placed in authority over you, even though they (which God forbid) should act otherwise, mindful of the Lord's precept, 'Do what they say, but not what they do.'"

It’s just not logical or empirically coherent. We could deconstruct this stupidity extensively, but it would not fit within the margin of this thread.

danhau

25 minutes ago

> However, this rule cannot be shown to be universally good, regardless of interpretation

Subordinate yourself to those with authority in all things, except things that break or undermine any of the other rules.

JSR_FDED

2 hours ago

After so many variations of “don’t be evil” (but when it suits us we’ll just let that go) - I’m indifferent to these kinds of ethics statements.

byte-sized-snac

an hour ago

  52. Guard your tongue against evil and depraved speech.
  53. Do not love much talking.
  54. Speak no useless words or words that move to laughter.
  55. Do not love much or boisterous laughter.
No love for stand-up comics then, huh?

grozmovoi

5 hours ago

excuse me, what

bitwize

5 hours ago

The people with commit bits to SQLite are a known, fixed, small set of individuals, all Christians. They decided to dispense with the usual Contributor Covenant derived code of conduct and adopt their own based on their shared value system. Unfortunately it doesn't actually meet the requirements for an open source code of conduct.

graemep

3 hours ago

Whose requirements? for a code of conduct?

I would have thought its up to each project to decide on their requirements. There is no central authority that decides how to run an open source project.