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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.
They'll fight over fonts meanwhile WordPress is on fire and where are the forks?
Or a name
~~Bring~~ Fork out the GIMP!
gimp-qt
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This sets such a bad precedent...
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?
Dunno. But this post is about Linus Torwalds booting Russians from an open source project due to their association with a warmongering regime. It's nothing to do with the US.
You seriously think that the US are not warmongering?
My point was, that your enemy might be in your ranks. Some of your dotzend secret services might have other goals than the interests of the common people. It's rarely only black and white.
Btw, didn't they ask Linus to include a backdoor once already?
Linux isn’t a sovereign nation. This isn’t difficult.
Are there no American or Israeli maintainers?
Is the country of Linus beholden to sanctioning those countries?
Not sure but they should
Any moderator want to actually let me know why my comment was removed, or...?
Is pointing out the dangers of working in an autocratic nation against the rules?
I can see the comment dude.
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.
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/