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To avoid war, would you support prominent opensources licenses from Putin?
Looks like things are going pretty bad around the world including fake news and manipulation of democratic institutions. The last time things were happening at such scale was 1914
To avoid war, would you support that opensource community members withdraw opensource license from Putin's government? This would include Linux, Anroind and other things ...
- bryanrasmussen 10y ago1. why wouldn't Russia just pass a law saying licenses of use cannot be region restricted in anyway as that can lead to prejudice or some other way of making it seem like they are doing a good thing. 2. why would Russia decide to follow that license one way or another
- Neliquat 10y agoThis concept is so misguided I don't even know where to start.
- meira 10y agoAvoid? What you are suggesting would be a big reason to go to war.
- T-A 10y agoOh yes, I can really see Putin quaking in his boots when confronted with demands by a bunch of foreign nerds sitting in their parents' basement that Russia stop using freely downloadable software, or else! What's a million man army and a thousand-plus strategic nukes [1] compared to the power of the GNU herd? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Armed_Forces
- meira 10y agoAnd why would GNU supports the enemies of Rússia?