Re: no to war in Ukraine

[Jacob Hrbek]

> There is a lot of Free Software written by Russians that you are are 
almost certainly using. Maybe not entirely but at least in part.  -- Gutov

I am slav with lot of russians and ukrainians friends you can't even 
imagine how much this hurts me to do this as someone who loves and uses 
Free Software in everything and who hates restrictions on privacy and 
freedom and who is endlessly appreciate of all the work that russian 
citizens did for Free Software and for me like all the helping that i 
got with issues including kindness of submitting a patches for a 
problems that i had, because I feel fucking sick and guilty, my mental 
health is in absolute shit and i didn't sleep for more then 3 hours a 
day since the war started blaming myself for all the work that i've done 
on Free Software and in Free Software Activism in the last ~14 years, 
because my work in Free Software contributed to the capability of 
russian military to do this war to bomb cities full of my brothers and 
sisters, killing newborns, children, elderly and committing war crimes 
against unarmed citizens scared for their life who are hiding at their 
homes.

> And not all of us support this terrible, unjust war. There are 
anti-war protests all around the world, including Moscow and 
Saint-Petersburg. -- Gutov

Russian citizens have a major role in this war i know the cost of 
opposing putin in russia some of my family even experienced it first 
hand in what happened before the Velvet Revolution in Czechia, but it's 
no where near the cost that ukrainians are paying right now.

Please go join them and please convince others to do the same. The whole 
world supports ukrainians and the whole world will support russians 
overthrowing that war criminal in moscow, but there has to be more 
people doing the protests and calling on the russian forces to oppose 
their leader to do it.

On 2/27/22 02:10, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> On 27.02.2022 02:02, Jacob Hrbek wrote:
> >   > FOSS people saying somewhere no to war?
> >
> > I do and I've made a statement on that in
> > https://qoto.org/@kreyren/107851975317924221 in short taking steps to
> > reduce russian access to my software and hardware by revoking the right
> > to use, study, improve and distribute + considering to take identity
> > verification and vetting for sensitive projects such as open-source
> > aircraft that could be used as a drone.
> There is a lot of Free Software written by Russians that you are are
> almost certainly using. Maybe not entirely but at least in part.
>
> And not all of us support this terrible, unjust war. There are anti-war
> protests all around the world, including Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
>
> There are certain kinds of software that are more problematic than
> others, though. For instance, face recognition software now currently
> used by Russian government on its citizens was at some point written by
> probably well-meaning developers. Given how quickly it has been
> retargeted at protestors, I don't think it's a good idea to have *any*
> country use such software. Though that ship has probably sailed.

--
Jacob Hrbek, In support of ukraine sovereignty #supportUkraine

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