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minus-squareArcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·12 days agoWe’re gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren’t we?
minus-squareGHiLA@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·12 days agoYou don’t need sanctions. I’ve seen you petty fucks fork projects over a font.
minus-squarekingthrillgore@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up0·11 days agoThey’ll fight over fonts meanwhile WordPress is on fire and where are the forks?
minus-squareAlsephina@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 days agoThis sets such a bad precedent…
minus-squareThe Doctor@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·12 days 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-squareVilian@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·12 days agoThe bad precedent was starting a war
minus-squareAlsephina@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·12 days agoYeah I’m sure the maintainers are in talks with Putin directly
minus-squareℬ𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓃𝒶@communick.newslinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-212 days 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?
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
BringFork out the GIMP!gimp-qt
:3
This sets such a bad precedent…
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.
The bad precedent was starting a war
Yeah I’m sure the maintainers are in talks with Putin directly
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/