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

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

[Jim Fulner]

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Well,

It looks like all this nonsense went somewhere.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/

I'm really sad that such discussion to attempt to make it more difficult
for anyone to access Free Software even happened in our community. I
suspect that such efforts not only make our movement appear as though we
aren't as committed to human freedom as we claim to be, but it probably
only reinforces government propaganda that the West is against everyday
Russian people and the authoritarian state is their only protection.

Jim

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   Well,
   It looks like all this nonsense went somewhere.
   [1]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-n
   pm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/
   I'm really sad that such discussion to attempt to make it more
   difficult for anyone to access Free Software even happened in our
   community. I suspect that such efforts not only make our movement
   appear as though we aren't as committed to human freedom as we claim to
   be, but it probably only reinforces government propaganda that the West
   is against everyday Russian people and the authoritarian state is their
   only protection.
   Jim

References

   1. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/

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

[Yasuaki Kudo]

NPM unaccountability is an issue of its own I think, but yes, you are absolutely right!

> On Mar 22, 2022, at 12:48, Jim Fulner <jim.fulner@member.fsf.org> wrote:
> 
>    Well,
>   It looks like all this nonsense went somewhere.
>   [1]https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-n
>   pm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/
>   I'm really sad that such discussion to attempt to make it more
>   difficult for anyone to access Free Software even happened in our
>   community. I suspect that such efforts not only make our movement
>   appear as though we aren't as committed to human freedom as we claim to
>   be, but it probably only reinforces government propaganda that the West
>   is against everyday Russian people and the authoritarian state is their
>   only protection.
>   Jim
> 
> References
> 
>   1. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/big-sabotage-famous-npm-package-deletes-files-to-protest-ukraine-war/
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