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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 37 points 4 weeks ago (104 children)

This is a shame, I always thought Linux was supposed to be an International collaboration, hate to see it caught up in this bullshit political agenda.

[–] Midnight 22 points 4 weeks ago (3 children)

Political agenda is a funny euphemism for imperialist invasion and genocide.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 14 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Gee i'm glad israeli maintainers are being blocked as well.

[–] Midnight 5 points 4 weeks ago

I'm all for sanctioning them too. Economic sanctions are the bare minimum we should be doing to genocidal authoritarians.

[–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee 14 points 4 weeks ago

I totally think them invading Ukraine is fucked up too but I also think the Israel situation is messed up too and would you be against someone maintaining code just because they are from Israel?

That would be wrong. Linux is supposed to be about more than political alignments its supposed to be a collaborative effort its always been about that.

This is wrong and its super wrong they don't tell anyone what compliance they are following or who issued it to them which is also supposed to be against what open source is about.

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