(this post obviously assumes the recent removal of russian devs due to sanctions is bad; no need to comment if you disagree)

a lot of people i know are considering jumping ship to some bsd after the recent MAINTAINERS debacle, but i’m skeptical it would make any difference. afaik, they’re just as us-centric as linux if not more (it’s the berkeley software distribution, after all). also, my biggest gripe about the bsds and the main reason i’ve never had any interest in them is their permissive licensing. permissive licenses suck

would there be any difference wrt sanctions in the bsds or moving away from linux to *bsd bc of that would be pointless?

  • gomp
    5·
    2 months ago

    This quote from your article does nail the problem on the head though.

    It nails a different problem on the head.

    You don’t have to convince the US government to allow you access to classified information, you just have to convince a lawyer that their (possibly non-US) client won’t be liable in case you are lying.