Re: Should distros take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?

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   Are there ways to be hostile to Putin's regime without being hostile to
   the ordinary Russians?
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   Subject: Re: Should distros take steps to reduce russian access to Free
   Software?

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     > So what we could ask, is that Savannah, Github or Sourceforge, and
     > Debian, Fedora or Ubuntu, stop to distribute free software in
   Russia.
   We could make Savannah deny access from Russian domain address, but
   why do that?
   It would not impede anything the Russian government wants to to with
   our softwsre.  It would not stop Russians from downloading our
   software, as they could use mirror sites.  It _would_ stop people in
   Russia from committing changes in our repositories, unless they use
   Tor or a VPN.  That isn't hard to do, unless Putin has blocked it.
   The main thing that would do is tell Russians, "You are Russian, so
   you are scum."
   Is it useful to treat Russians that way?  Would it help save Ukraine
   or defeat Putin?  I don't think so.  That message is not a valid or
   useful message to give to Russians.
   --
   Dr Richard Stallman ([1]https://stallman.org)
   Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project ([2]https://gnu.org)
   Founder, Free Software Foundation ([3]https://fsf.org)
   Internet Hall-of-Famer ([4]https://internethalloffame.org)
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