• Chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
      449·
      4 days ago

      Not that I condone Microsoft, but if it is a sanctioned country (Russia, Iran, North Korea, etc.). Microsoft will be in shit with the US government if they let it there.

      If the project has contributors from there, then I guess they need to move off GitHub like they did.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        411·
        4 days ago

        All fair but with current us foreign policy I really have hard time respecting their authority on anything

        Mega corps gonna mega corp so that why there is a need for decentralization where possible. Otherwise we are all gonna be enslaved by a few mentally ill people with out any check or balace.

        • Chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
          61·
          4 days ago

          Yeah I don’t disagree. Corporations shouldn’t exist imo, but they do and if you don’t want to host your own things then we have to work with them.

            • TechnoCat@lemm.eeEnglish
              3·
              3 days ago

              Cooperatives are still a corporation, but the ownership is distributed more than the CEO style corporation we are used to.

              • Chris@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                3 days ago

                Are there any 501c3’s out there that I can host with? That would be the dream. Unless I guess buying into a cooperative of those exist

                • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
                  2·
                  3 days ago

                  I think the point above currently we are relying on mega corps data centers and there is not practical way to replace that right now or in the near future.

                  With that being said, every household could theoretically have a small sever and we all can create clusters to support local needs needs with out having to pay the toll to the parasite.

                  Today’s self hosting pinoneers could be the back bone of future decentralized internet.

                • TechnoCat@lemm.eeEnglish
                  1·
                  3 days ago

                  A membership cooperative isn’t a bad idea I suppose for a cloud service. I think having users vote on the administration of a service could get hard to work with though unless the vote was to delegate it out.

      • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
        14·
        3 days ago

        If I interpret this toot correctly, there wasn’t a direct commit from a sanctioned region, but one developer was in one of those regions for a short while quite some time ago. And he may have been flagged because of this.

        • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          3 days ago

          I mean blocking specific countries is stupid anyway. Historically China has been playing games with the EU and the US on a geopolitical level. But: Chinese, European as well as American researchers have been at the core of research on current topics like AI, security, etc. Btw. ironically the scientific landscape is very collaborative and borders on a federated model, it’s actually pretty neat how much researchers don’t care about country of origin.

          What I’m saying is introducing geopolitics into open source development or research is one of the most stupid things to do, because it punishes both your and the other country and only benefits uninvolved third parties. It’s literally shooting yourself in the foot.

      • Dultas@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        If they can tell they’re from a banned region why are they letting them push in the first place. Sounds like a convenient excuse.

      • ☂️-@lemmy.mlEnglish
        21·
        3 days ago

        its sad that this is what the country decided to do. FOSS has nothing to do with the wars waged by politicians, sometimes at the expense of the very people trying to collaborate together despite chauvinism.

        i imagine it will sadly get worse as these types of conflicts escalate.

    • tauren@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      3 days ago

      That’s strange. A lot of people from Russia continue contributing on GitHub without any issues.