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Boycotting FOSS projects in the wake of the "buy canadian/european" movement makes no sense (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Tell it to the Russian Linux devs that foss has no owners :-) Theory and practice are 2 different things

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

FOSS doesn't mean that you are entitled to a place at the table or that your contributions have to be accepted. Nothing prevents these Russian devs from continuing to to work on the kernel.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Pretty sure American laws explicitly prevent them from working on the Kernel. It's stupid but that's what happened iirc

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

And that's the funny thing: linus is somewhere in europe, yet burgerlander laws apply because the politicians and media in all of europe are all puppets of usa

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

US laws prevented them from contributing while employed in a sanctioned company. Sucky situation for those individuals.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

They can fork it, if nobody wants to work with them anymore that's their problem