Scorpius [He/Him]

This is clearly a response to the US allowing strikes inside Russia.

Interesting timing to do that when Ukraine, Germany and Russia have been gearing up to negotiate an end to the war next year. Wonder if this is to give the west more leverage in the negotiations or to escalate to give the republican admin next year a tougher time.

Biden using his last few months to start ww3

Same here. For now it’s only barring contributors which won’t harm actual users much, but that could change in the future with the precedent this is setting.

What’s the point of “FOSS” at that point if it’s not so different from corporate products, being similarly vulnerable to sanctions? I could see genuine free software being relegated to piracy communities if it goes that far.