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

[Jean Louis]

* Jacob Hrbek <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz> [2022-03-11 21:00]:
> > "Free software" does not mean "until you use it for immoral or illegal
> purposes."
> 
> Freedom Software (Free Software) is based on the principles of Four Freedoms
> of Franklin D. Roosevelt namely:
> 
> 1. Freedom of speech
> 2. Freedom of worship/religion
> 3. Freedom of want
> 4. Freedom from fear
> 
> Which is basically 1:1 copy of Four Freedoms of Free software with just
> changed wording to apply for computer science.

Not that I am aware of it, as I have not read it in Richard Stallman's
Manifesto. Your statements are not related to free software. 

Freedom of speech if fundamental to US constitution and US in general,
though religion, "want" and "fear" are not related. How I know about
Dr. Stallman from his writings, religion has nothing to do with free
software.

The GNU Manifesto - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation
https://www.gnu.org/gnu/manifesto.html

Free software is not a perpertrator, it is useful resource for
people. How people use it is freedom zero, users may use it how they
wish.

In every war on every side there are criminals who will use anything
for their evil intentions, maybe software, but maybe other tools, like
ropes, knives, timber, steel, poison, and so on. Please do not blame
manufacturers nor authors of resources to be perpetrators.

Finally free software may be used on both sides by humanitarian
organizations, by hospitals, nurses, doctors, who save lives,
including lives of Ukrainians/Russians as prisoners.

Please don't blame useful resource like software to be the
perpetrator, it is not.

Best is to find other place to promote other political agenda than on
Libreplanet mailing list.

Let us not discriminate on this mailing list against any Russian or
Ukrainian for reasons of their ethnicity, opinion or nationality.

Let us stick to basics of Human Rights and adhere in our good behavior
towards any ethnicity on this mailing list.

Article of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights | Stand up for human 
rights | UN Human Rights Office
https://standup4humanrights.org/en/article.html

What we have is free software and that is what brings us together.


Jean

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