Yesterday, after finishing discussing the proposed structure of my March column with my "rude junior," we got to talking about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

He was acclaimed highly in the following phrase,

"If an appeal to humanity doesn't work for you, I'll appeal to your egoism: the future of Ukrainian citizens is the future of Leaflet."

I love this phrase, too, so I reposted it.

You know that I do not have the qualities to preach "humanitarianism" or "humanity" or "morality" or "public interest" to others.

I have a strange belief that if I say "humanitarianism" even once, it will stick with me for the rest of my life.

That is why the "excuses of 'selfishness'" is the greatest gift for people like me.

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So here's my conclusion for today.

"If you want to invoke my "selfishness", you should develop OSS so good that I (Ebata) cannot ignore it!"

That's it.

At present, my "countries where self-interest might be triggered" are

USA (PostgreSQL, Gun Emacs, C/C++, golang, AWS), Finland (Linux), Switzerland (u-blox), UK (Raspberry Pi).

By this logic, I am not only a "supporter" of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, but also a "praise" of the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty.

I know that my support will not be enough to help them, however.

"World Peace Through OSS"

I think there are many people (IT engineers) in our country who are moved by the phrase.