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It might spur development of the FOSS alternatives, like Wine and ReactOS, FreeCAD and LibreCAD, GIMP and Krita, Octave and Sage, etc; for all kinds of the prop

by xvilka 5y ago

It might spur development of the FOSS alternatives, like Wine and ReactOS, FreeCAD and LibreCAD, GIMP and Krita, Octave and Sage, etc; for all kinds of the proprietary software that was blocked.

davidgerard 5y ago
https://ru.libreoffice.org/ https://ru.libreoffice.org/
rwmj 5y ago
If closed source forks of copyleft projects become legal then will FOSS still benefit? On the one hand, just generally having FOSS more widely used could be good in and of itself, and closed source forks are difficult to maintain especially if the project upstream is lively. On the other hand it might mean Russian companies adding great features to GPL software and not sharing them.
- pabs3 5y ago
  > Russian companies adding great features to GPL software and not sharing them. I suspect that is already happening. For example Astra Linux is a Debian derivative but their developers don't appear to be active within Debian. The other thing is that some FOSS may remove support for Russia in some way. A font removed characters only used in Russian/Belarusian. Qt are blocking downloads from Russia/Belarus. OpenBLAS are considering removing support for Russian Elbrus processors. https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont/issues/11 https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont/issues/11 https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-March/042288.html https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-Marc... https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/3551 https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/3551 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBLAS-Russia-Elbrus-Issue https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBLAS... So the non-shared forks of FOSS are likely to be inevitable.
  - SSLy 5y ago
    > A font removed characters only used in Russian/Belarusian All else aside, that's just bloody stupid. A lot of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language.
    - chupasaurus 5y ago
      That particular one was stupid because it also affected other Cyrillic languages even though it was stated otherwise.
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pdabbadabba 5y ago
The year of the Linux desktop is finally upon us! (In Russia.)
ZoomZoomZoom 5y ago
On the contrary. Rampant piracy is one of the main blocks for spreading the usage of Free Software. No one (besides the activists) has any incentive to use FLOSS if you can get an industry standard software for free.

by xvilka 5y ago

It might spur development of the FOSS alternatives, like Wine and ReactOS, FreeCAD and LibreCAD, GIMP and Krita, Octave and Sage, etc; for all kinds of the proprietary software that was blocked.

davidgerard 5y ago

https://ru.libreoffice.org/ https://ru.libreoffice.org/

rwmj 5y ago

If closed source forks of copyleft projects become legal then will FOSS still benefit? On the one hand, just generally having FOSS more widely used could be good in and of itself, and closed source forks are difficult to maintain especially if the project upstream is lively. On the other hand it might mean Russian companies adding great features to GPL software and not sharing them.

pabs3 5y ago
> Russian companies adding great features to GPL software and not sharing them. I suspect that is already happening. For example Astra Linux is a Debian derivative but their developers don't appear to be active within Debian. The other thing is that some FOSS may remove support for Russia in some way. A font removed characters only used in Russian/Belarusian. Qt are blocking downloads from Russia/Belarus. OpenBLAS are considering removing support for Russian Elbrus processors. https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont/issues/11 https://github.com/hikikomori82/osifont/issues/11 https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-March/042288.html https://lists.qt-project.org/pipermail/development/2022-Marc... https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/3551 https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/3551 https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBLAS-Russia-Elbrus-Issue https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OpenBLAS... So the non-shared forks of FOSS are likely to be inevitable.
- SSLy 5y ago
  > A font removed characters only used in Russian/Belarusian All else aside, that's just bloody stupid. A lot of Ukrainians speak Russian as their first language.
  - chupasaurus 5y ago
    That particular one was stupid because it also affected other Cyrillic languages even though it was stated otherwise.

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pdabbadabba 5y ago

The year of the Linux desktop is finally upon us! (In Russia.)

ZoomZoomZoom 5y ago

On the contrary. Rampant piracy is one of the main blocks for spreading the usage of Free Software. No one (besides the activists) has any incentive to use FLOSS if you can get an industry standard software for free.