With Trump's anti-immigration policy, thousands of migrant children separated from their parents, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has also become a target of public criticism. Therefore, when the open-source developers find Chef Seth Vargo recently signed a contract with ICE, he withdrew his open source project Chef Sugar.
Chef Sugar is a Ruby library to more easily use the Chef. Varga developed and open the library during his tenure Chef, Chef later integrated into the library of source code. However, Chef Sugar's latest code is still on the individual Vargo's GitHub repository.
After discovering Chef cooperation with ICE, Varga with behavioral delete library in protest. "I have a moral obligation and to prevent my source code used by the evil", Vargo leave this sentence in the empty Chef Sugar library.
Subsequently, Chef Software CEO Barry Crist issued a document that, this incident affected "Many customers production system." Meanwhile, Chef team is working to find ways to remedy them and re-upload it to the company's GitHub account to resolve this problem by searching some older Chef Sugar source code.
Things did not stop there, the protest continues. People on social media Varga move much appreciated. Chef inside and outside programmers have expressed their support for behavior Varga, even if they had to find their own libraries Chef Sugar substitutes. Then, Chef engineers and leadership of the bombing, people they signed the contract criticized and asked them to give up the contract with ICE.
Pressure not only from outside but also from within Chef. Crist, CEO of the company's e-mail circulated to all employees responded later posted on the company's blog.
Crist expressed,, Chef ICE has been a long-term collaborator, "regardless of whether we personally agree with all kinds of policy, we will cooperate with the government since the last government agencies. This decision is not about the contract value, but on the rapidly changing era of consistent and fair business methods. I believe that the review of specific government programs, to select the institution we should or should not do business, is inappropriate, impractical, not within the scope of our mission. "
But a few days, Crist had a little attitude change, he said that next year the ICE will not renew the contract expires, Chef currently need to continue to fulfill all the obligations existing contracts.
Vargo said he is no longer allowed to talk about it, he believes that "this is just the beginning", and all the people stand firm thanked. Implicated in this matter out, it is more ambitious ethical issues, the source code is always neutral it? What should or should not open source doping moral stand? Then next time we talk about this topic.
Source: ZDNet