Re: Should we take steps to reduce russian access to Free Software?> the headache of it all dissolves in forgiveness

[Ole Aamot]

   The code is in GNOME Gitlab and free to fork, ignore or co-operate
   with.
   [1]http://gitlab.gnome.org/ole/gnome-radio
   There is a Issue tracker, feel free to file issues in
   [2]http://gitlab.gnome.org/ole/gnome-radio/-/issues
   or send merge requests.
   On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 08:14 Magnus, <[3]dizzi90@gmail.com> wrote:

   The cure against hateful speech is constructive speech. As Richard
   wrote in Free Software, Free Society, there is a link between knowing
   the law of a country and knowing the software that runs on computers
   you control.
   The Internet makes the world one society and we must take greater care
   in knowing the consequences of our actions. Else we as creators
   manifest a tyrannical rule. XAI must be part of a free global
   siblinghood.

   On Thu, 31 Mar 2022, 00:44 Ole Aamot, <[4]oka@oka.no> wrote:

   On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 5:22 AM Richard Stallman <[5]rms@gnu.org> wrote:

     [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
     ]]]
     [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
     ]]]
     [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
     ]]]
     Free software means that the developers cannot decide who can use it
     and who cannot.  If we had the power to stop Russia from using a
     program,
     we would also have the power to anyone else from using it.
     That would not be free software.

   True.
   We could become uncivil and block people from downloading a free
   software program, but there are no such (as far as I know) ipchains
   blocklists on [6]www.gnomeradio.org, so
   there is no reason to do so either.  We live in civil democracies, but
   Russia and Putin has invaded Ukraine.
   I have recently added Retro FM in Kyiv, Ukraine after discussions with
   Magnus ([7]dizzi90@gmail.com), when we saw that someone with a Russian
   IP address deliberatedly tried to remove Retro FM from the list of
   Ukrainian radio stations on [8]en.wikipedia.org, so we decided to loop
   censorship on Wikipedia and therefore published the station in GNOME
   Radio 16.0.6 for GNOME 42 to a global mirror of GNOME.
   See
   [9]https://blogs.gnome.org/oleaamot/2022/03/19/gnome-radio-16-for-gnome
   -42/ and [10]http://www.gnomeradio.org/
   --
   Ole Aamot
   Aamot Software / [11]www.aamot.software
   Frydenbergveien, 0575 OSLO, Norway
   (+47) 45049800 / [12]ole@aamot.software

References

   1. http://gitlab.gnome.org/ole/gnome-radio
   2. http://gitlab.gnome.org/ole/gnome-radio/-/issues
   3. mailto:dizzi90@gmail.com
   4. mailto:oka@oka.no
   5. mailto:rms@gnu.org
   6. http://www.gnomeradio.org/
   7. mailto:dizzi90@gmail.com
   8. http://en.wikipedia.org/
   9. https://blogs.gnome.org/oleaamot/2022/03/19/gnome-radio-16-for-gnome-42/
  10. http://www.gnomeradio.org/
  11. http://www.aamot.software/
  12. mailto:ole@aamot.software