I for one am going through quite a culture shock. I always assumed the nature of FOSS software made it immune to be confined within the policies of nations; I guess if one day the government of USA starts to think that its a security concers for china to use and contribute to core opensource software created by its citizens or based in their boundaries, they might strongarm FOSS communities and projects to make their software exclude them in someway or worse declare GPL software a threat to national security.

  • TommySoda@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    I’m out of the loop, what’s the recent Linux drama? If you don’t wanna type it out, you can point me in the right direction. Thanks. :)

      • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        19 days ago

        For additional context, this was not a choice, but a requirement. The Linux Foundation is US based, and Torvalds is a US citizen. This was required due to current US sanctions against Russia, and was not just some sort of “Russia bad” thing from Torvalds that a lot of people are framing it as.

        • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
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          19 days ago

          this was not a choice, but a requirement

          It has been framed as such, but no evidence has been given that it was a requirement

  • geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    Yes. There is an extremely arbitrary distinction made between the USA and Russia. Both are known for injecting spyware. China is somehow still okay? It makes no sense.

    Not to mention the elephant in the room by not banning another certain country actively committing war crimes.

    All software should be safety checked. Where the maintainer is from should be irrelevant.

    But the most weird aspect is the timing. Why now and not a few years ago?

    • troed@fedia.io
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      20 days ago

      There is an extremely arbitrary distinction made between the USA and Russia.

      Your world view seems to be highly influenced by propaganda. It’s very easy to draw a distinction between these two countries. Let me start with an easy one:

      Russia is a dictatorship, the US is a democracy.

          • Binette@lemmy.ml
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            20 days ago

            1. You’re replying to someone from db0

            2. Lemmy.ml is not the only place that believes the US isn’t a democracy.

            3. The US is an oligarchy. It’s one of the things agreed by philosophers, including my teacher. The current controversy in the left surrounding the elections obviously proves this point.