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The distinction is whether it's a question of freeing it for everyone's control, or merely trading foreign control for their own. Russia doesn't want GNU, they
by jarcane 11y ago
The distinction is whether it's a question of freeing it for everyone's control, or merely trading foreign control for their own.
Russia doesn't want GNU, they just want a Russian Microsoft that's in Putin's pocket like everything else.
Take a look at what's happened to VKontakte some time.
- pgeorgi 11y agoVKontakte can't be easily forked, while ReactOS is GPL. Of course the Russian government wants to be able to control their systems, and any positive effects for others are at best some nice PR. How does that detract any value from ReactOS (or Linux, which is their "other" desktop and server OS)? One of the principles of Open Source (compared to Free Software) is the idea that people and organizations work in a project where every contributor works in their self-interest. Why is this suddenly a bad thing?