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[–] lily33@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

I'm sure removing these maintainers would be of great help to the Ukrainian war effort...

More seriously: We need to help Ukraine more. But this doesn't do that. It just hurts a bunch of people (both the maintainers, and the people using their code) for no benefit whatsoever.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago

The biggest help the west could've done for Ukraine was to fuck off when the Istanbul negotiations were happening two months into the war.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

100% agree with you! Like I said, I don't think we can hold all Russian people directly responsible for the actions of their government.

I wish for an ideal world where politics could stay out of Linux, but this is extremely tricky and cannot be treated black and white. Labeling things as "political" and then crying to keep "politics" out of things is often used as a weapon for exclusion, for example by sexuality or race, and I think exclusion should be anathema for Linux and open source projects.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I think the general idea is to create as much drain on Russia as possible. Limit there ability to import and export good while creating brain drain and terrible moral.

How many Russians have defected at this point? Spoiler is a decent amount.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago

How's that working you for y'all there?