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This is PURE fud. They literally are from Eastern Europe, not Russia. They have spoken out against the war specifically against pitons actions on their blog. T

by syspec 4y ago

This is PURE fud. They literally are from Eastern Europe, not Russia. They have spoken out against the war specifically against pitons actions on their blog. They're Czech

donedealomg 4y ago
stjohnswarts 4y ago
I think it comes from the fact that their founders and high level execs are Russian and those chains are hard to break and people simply going to be suspicious during times of war. Especially with something as "basic" as an IDE that could potentially upload your source code to a Russian server. I'm personally not worried and think that would be found out rather quickly by security researchers and IT security wondering why spurious encrypted transactions are happening on weird ports to other countries. It's the same reason that governments have issued warnings about Kaspersky antivirus, although that one has root privileges on most machines that it runs on. Since a huge part of the source is closed it's hard to prove anything one way or another other than through detecting any suspicious activity.
- atleta 4y ago
  According to the wikipedia [1], the company was founded in Prague by 3 Russian developers. Now you can say that those ties are hard to break, but another way to look at it is that the founders have (likely) been living abroad for 2+ decades and building a global company there. They have publicly condemned Russia for attacking Ukraine and closed their Russian offices. They also suspended sales in Belarus. [2] And closing offices here means letting go of developers (with possibly offering them the opportunity to relocate, of course) which sounds like a pretty hard decision to make both from the human and the business perspective. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains [2] https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-statement-on-ukraine/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...
5350-uiop-1130 4y ago
russia isn't eastern europe?

by syspec 4y ago

This is PURE fud. They literally are from Eastern Europe, not Russia. They have spoken out against the war specifically against pitons actions on their blog. They're Czech

donedealomg 4y ago

stjohnswarts 4y ago

I think it comes from the fact that their founders and high level execs are Russian and those chains are hard to break and people simply going to be suspicious during times of war. Especially with something as "basic" as an IDE that could potentially upload your source code to a Russian server. I'm personally not worried and think that would be found out rather quickly by security researchers and IT security wondering why spurious encrypted transactions are happening on weird ports to other countries. It's the same reason that governments have issued warnings about Kaspersky antivirus, although that one has root privileges on most machines that it runs on. Since a huge part of the source is closed it's hard to prove anything one way or another other than through detecting any suspicious activity.

atleta 4y ago
According to the wikipedia [1], the company was founded in Prague by 3 Russian developers. Now you can say that those ties are hard to break, but another way to look at it is that the founders have (likely) been living abroad for 2+ decades and building a global company there. They have publicly condemned Russia for attacking Ukraine and closed their Russian offices. They also suspended sales in Belarus. [2] And closing offices here means letting go of developers (with possibly offering them the opportunity to relocate, of course) which sounds like a pretty hard decision to make both from the human and the business perspective. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JetBrains [2] https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-statement-on-ukraine/ https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...

5350-uiop-1130 4y ago

russia isn't eastern europe?