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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (60 children)

Does invading your neighbor count as international collaboration? Not that all Russian people can be held directly responsible for the actions of their government.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 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.

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