The Russian government has threatened to nationalize or seize assets from several western companies that have halted operations in the country. Microsoft, Apple, BP, and McDonald's are among the companies that could be affected by the move.
A small part of me wants that to happen, just to really hammer in the fact that open source is the only reliable way to run your tech fleet. Especially if the US hates you.
Even open source is not 100% safe. I mean the other day I was checking out CMake licensing(because I was bored), and I was shocked to find that you can’t use CMake if US hates you. In what universe would such a tool threaten national security?? It’s just stupid
I mean the other day I was checking out CMake licensing(because I was bored), and I was shocked to find that you can’t use CMake if US hates you. In what universe would such a tool threaten national security??
Then it’s not open source. Not by the definition.
Both the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation agree that you cannot put restrictions on what the software can be used for and still call it Open Source or Free/Libre Software, respectively. Not even conditions like no commercial use or no military use are allowed. This is why CC-BY-SA (do whatever you want as long as you cite the creator and re-license under the same or compatible license) is considered an Open Source/Libre license, but both CC-BY-NC-SA (no commercial use) and CC-BY-ND-SA (no derivative works) are not.
Apple and windows have administrative access to all device right?
Coulnd’t they juste brick 99% of Russia PCs over night if they wanted?
Not sure if they could brick. But it’s possible for them to render the OS installation unusable.
The problem is this: what kind of message does it send to their international market? Not a good one I suppose.
A small part of me wants that to happen, just to really hammer in the fact that open source is the only reliable way to run your tech fleet. Especially if the US hates you.
Even open source is not 100% safe. I mean the other day I was checking out CMake licensing(because I was bored), and I was shocked to find that you can’t use CMake if US hates you. In what universe would such a tool threaten national security?? It’s just stupid
Then it’s not open source. Not by the definition.
Both the Open Source Initiative and the Free Software Foundation agree that you cannot put restrictions on what the software can be used for and still call it Open Source or Free/Libre Software, respectively. Not even conditions like no commercial use or no military use are allowed. This is why CC-BY-SA (do whatever you want as long as you cite the creator and re-license under the same or compatible license) is considered an Open Source/Libre license, but both CC-BY-NC-SA (no commercial use) and CC-BY-ND-SA (no derivative works) are not.
Thanks for the detailed explanation!
edit: also I’m just sad that a tool I used to trust and love is not really open source as I thought it was:(
I mean, they’re not supposed to be able to per the TOS. Not saying they actually can’t though.