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I agree this probably hurts if you're in those countries or doing business with entities in those countries, but what business would stop an architecture overal

I agree this probably hurts if you're in those countries or doing business with entities in those countries, but what business would stop an architecture overall that they believe is the right move, only because of the small Iranian/Cuban market? Either way, the best way to fix this is to lobby Congress.

miracle2k 8y ago
You're right that for most, there isn't a business case to care about access to these sanctioned countries (there are more than just those two that Google is blocking). I wouldn't say you won't be locking out any users: people in Iran obviously do use, say, source control. But sure, the monetary loss is very limited. But ideology can be a powerful reason. And people in Open Source can be very ideological. Certainly for me, this makes Gitlab a no-go. I want my code to be accessible by everyone. I do wonder what kind of pressure could be applied to Gitlab in terms of free software developers shunning the platform.