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minus-squareBCsven@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·5 hours agoSoftware still has to follow legal rules, like when some distros removed stuff to be ITAR /EAR compliant for shipping across borders Nothing is stopping Russia from taking the Open Source kernel and developing it themselves
minus-squarenanook@friendica.eskimo.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 hours ago@BCsven @fireshell Or Linus from moving the organization back to Finland, or Iceland, or Switzerland, or some other more neutral territory.
minus-squareAllero@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·4 hours agoKernel cannot follow or not follow any legal rules. Linux Foundation can. And if regulations become a serious issue and go against the spirit of open-source, it is time to move the Foundation somewhere else.
minus-squaremerthyr1831@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·3 hours agothe foundation should have moved long ago but I think Linus’ personal adoration of the US is going to get in the way of that.
minus-squarenanook@friendica.eskimo.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours ago@Allero @BCsven That was the point I was making when I suggest back to Finland or perhaps Iceland or Switzerland.
Software still has to follow legal rules, like when some distros removed stuff to be ITAR /EAR compliant for shipping across borders
Nothing is stopping Russia from taking the Open Source kernel and developing it themselves
@BCsven @fireshell Or Linus from moving the organization back to Finland, or Iceland, or Switzerland, or some other more neutral territory.
Kernel cannot follow or not follow any legal rules. Linux Foundation can.
And if regulations become a serious issue and go against the spirit of open-source, it is time to move the Foundation somewhere else.
the foundation should have moved long ago but I think Linus’ personal adoration of the US is going to get in the way of that.
@Allero @BCsven That was the point I was making when I suggest back to Finland or perhaps Iceland or Switzerland.
Agreed with you!