[hackerspaces] Sigh -- I'm not helping with Maker Faires this year.

[Matt Joyce]

It's a personal decision.  And I respect Mitch's right to act based on
his beliefs.  I don't agree with it myself, but I understand his
position.

-Matt

On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Al Jigong Billings
<albill at openbuddha.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday, April 2, 2012 at 8:35 PM, Don Ankney wrote:
>
> It's hard to point this out without sounding like a troll (and I'm really
> trying not to), but DARPA funding is pretty closely tied to the origin on
> the Internet. I honestly don't understand the objections for grants such as
> Maker Faires.
>
>
> This has no bearing on the objections people have being associated with the
> military and projects that may be used by the military for their ends.
>
>  The creation of the Internet was a long time ago.
>
>
> For the Internet, the DARPA funding is acceptable because we believe in the
> end result of the funding. How is Maker Faire any different? It's not as if
> the Faire has the potential for being weaponized.
>
>
> "Acceptable" to you, perhaps. Not to others here.
>
> Do we really need to go round and round about this again?
>
> Many of us won't take money from the Department of Defense for our work
> which can then be freely repurposed to military uses. Period. It doesn't
> matter what kind of dress you put on the pig.
>
> Being associated with DARPA also legitimizes their tactics of cooping the
> grassroots Maker movement. Many of us also disagree with that as well. The
> military can go build their own hackerspaces.
>
> Al
>
>
>
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