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Hi, |
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On 09/03/2022 01.21, Andriy Utkin wrote: |
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> For the last two weeks, every day Russia commits war crimes in Ukraine |
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> at a yet-unseen scale. |
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> Sadly, I see most FOSS organizations, commercial and volunteer |
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> organizations alike, silent. Gentoo stays silent, too. |
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> I also would like to encourage any ideas of how Gentoo could possibly |
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> take any reasonable action. |
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Gentoo should avoid politics. |
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(Only exception is a statement like "Use open source" or "Use Gentoo") |
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The silence has good reasons: |
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a) We provide open source and it is good not to restrict the usage. |
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People are even allowed to use Gentoo to simulate or start nuclear |
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missiles. - even if we all would hate this. |
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b) We have nobody who can speak for all Gentoo developers/users. |
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We should find ways to ensure neutrality in the long term. |
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Provide Gentoo even in bad countries via a clever mirror network. |
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Find solutions to legally evade embargos for our software. |
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Recently people asked to cancel the neutrality of ICANN. This would have |
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killed the internet immediately. |
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There should not be any borders for Gentoo in the next decades. |
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Can a state force us/the Gentoo foundation to limit the access to our |
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services and prevent specific people or countries from using our services? |
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Can a state force us to commit malware/backdoors or send signed malware |
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to specific IPs? |
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Best, |
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Jonas |