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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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We're gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren't we?
You don't need sanctions. I've seen you petty fucks fork projects over a font.
This article gives a good discussion about a potential coming East/West political split in the world of FOSS.
https://thenewstack.io/avoiding-a-geopolitical-open-source-apocalypse/
This sets such a bad precedent...
Arguably, ITAR set the precedent in the 1990's during the crypto wars. USians used to have to travel to Canada to work on cryptographic code in OpenBSD because their commits couldn't legally be exported.
The bad precedent was starting a war
Yeah I'm sure the maintainers are in talks with Putin directly
CIA could do that too.
Ah yes. The Finnish CIA.
They have one?