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minus-squareArcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoWe’re gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren’t we?
minus-squareAlsephina@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoThis sets such a bad precedent…
minus-squareVilian@lemmy.cacakelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoThe bad precedent was starting a war
minus-squareAlsephina@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoYeah I’m sure the maintainers are in talks with Putin directly
minus-squareThe Doctor@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·8 months agoArguably, 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.
minus-squareGHiLA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoYou don’t need sanctions. I’ve seen you petty fucks fork projects over a font.
minus-squarekingthrillgore@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoThey’ll fight over fonts meanwhile WordPress is on fire and where are the forks?
minus-squareℬ𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓃𝒶@communick.newslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-28 months agoThis 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/
We’re gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren’t we?
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
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.
You don’t need sanctions. I’ve seen you petty fucks fork projects over a font.
Or a name
BringFork out the GIMP!gimp-qt
:3
They’ll fight over fonts meanwhile WordPress is on fire and where are the forks?
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/