• CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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    20 days ago

    Keep it a note that having them listed as a Chinese military company could let US put pressure against open source groups to not collaborate with them; very similar to how US forced Linux Foundation to kick off decade old russian collaborators.

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      20 days ago

      That’s a bad mischaracterization. You cannot force someone to do something voluntarily . Torvald spoke in support of it. I’m sure many governments and groups using the Linux kernel and open source want Developers that are vetted. Or can be reasonably sure won’t be forced to act maliciously under duress.

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        19 days ago

        It is not a mischaracterization though. Open source projects can be forced to stop accepting contributions from employees of sanctioned companies, which would include Tencent employees if sanctioned. Anyways, Tencent is not being sanctioned here, so I guess it doesn’t really matter.

        Also, Linus was definitely forced to kick the Russian maintainers out by USA sanctions.

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          19 days ago

          Force implies force. If you have evidence that it was actually done by force. Against Torvald’s etc will. Please share it. Otherwise get out of here with your gasslighting.

          Any project open source or otherwise can and does restrict contribution.

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        19 days ago

        You cannot force someone to do something voluntarily

        Instantly disregarded. Completely boneheaded thing to say.

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            19 days ago

            Yeah, that’s right. I willfully pay rent and I willfully adhere to capitalism. No force used anywhere.

            Sorry you said something stupid and got mad when someone pointed it out :(

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              19 days ago

              Damn your projection is off the charts. But I mean it’s what we’ve come to expect from leninists. The childish Behavior I mean.

              Had I actually said anything stupid. Then you should have been easily able to refute it. Yet you can’t. You can’t even actually acknowledge or reply to anything that I said. Instead choosing to Make up things or imagine things that were never Said.

              BTW I’m an anarchist. I have no love for rent seeking leaches. Just as I don’t for capitalist/leninist hypocrites.