Comment on Organic Maps migrates to Forgejo due to GitHub account blocked by Microsoft.

• sudoer777@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  How the fuck is banning people in certain countries from contributing to small projects like this doing anything but shooting the FOSS ecosystem, which already has a severe shortage of developers, in the foot?

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• kava@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  whataboutism isn’t some magical phrase that you can utter every time someone brings up hypocrisy

  if we’re going to support sanctioning civilians based on their countries breaking international law, then we should not have double standards. otherwise it’s very clearly a geopolitical issue and not a moral one.

  and that’s what this is actually about. the US sanctions on Russia are a geopolitical tool meant to make the Russian re-subjugation of Ukraine more expensive. that’s it.

  to me, that doesn’t justify banning individuals from participating in OSS projects. anybody that wants to contribute should be able to.

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• T156@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  They’re too big to fail. At least, they were, but they’re scaling back these days, so they may be sanctioned sooner or later.

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