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minus-square@Arcturus@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink53•6 months agoWe’re gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren’t we?
minus-squareGHiLAlinkfedilink81•6 months agoYou don’t need sanctions. I’ve seen you petty fucks fork projects over a font.
minus-squarekingthrillgorelinkfedilink6•6 months agoThey’ll fight over fonts meanwhile WordPress is on fire and where are the forks?
minus-square@Alsephina@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish25•6 months agoYeah I’m sure the maintainers are in talks with Putin directly
minus-squareThe DoctorlinkfedilinkEnglish5•6 months agoArguably, ITAR set the precedent in the 1990’s during the crypto wars. USians used to have to travel to Canada to work on cryptographic code in OpenBSD because their commits couldn’t legally be exported.
minus-squareℬ𝒶𝓃𝒶𝓃𝒶linkfedilink6•edit-26 months agoThis article gives a good discussion about a potential coming East/West political split in the world of FOSS. https://thenewstack.io/avoiding-a-geopolitical-open-source-apocalypse/
We’re gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren’t we?
You don’t need sanctions. I’ve seen you petty fucks fork projects over a font.
They’ll fight over fonts meanwhile WordPress is on fire and where are the forks?
Or a name
BringFork out the GIMP!gimp-qt
:3
This sets such a bad precedent…
The bad precedent was starting a war
Yeah I’m sure the maintainers are in talks with Putin directly
Arguably, ITAR set the precedent in the 1990’s during the crypto wars. USians used to have to travel to Canada to work on cryptographic code in OpenBSD because their commits couldn’t legally be exported.
This article gives a good discussion about a potential coming East/West political split in the world of FOSS.
https://thenewstack.io/avoiding-a-geopolitical-open-source-apocalypse/