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

submitted 1 day 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 19 hours ago (1 children)

I kept saying it all over the place regarding the fascistic rejection of Russian (as in race) code and got flamed as result. These people use FOSS, especially GNU/GPL software and yet they have no clue about the license themselves.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Weren't Russian contributors (from very specific sanctioned companies) rejected from contributing because of US sanction laws and with Linux Foundation being HQ'd in the US?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think that was mainly due to the concern of hostile actors committing code to the kernel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

I think it was US OFAC sanctions

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regulations-and-open-source-us-ofac-sanctions

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/ (links to the OFAC sanctions set up after Russia invade Ukraine)

The OFAC sanctions do have quite a few lists, with one of them being "Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions", so it could be fear of harmful actions and not just retaliation for the invasion