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This is incredibly dumb. Hopefully some GitHub exec intervenes. Edit: Happy to take the karma hit. Stupid is stupid, regardless of jurisdiction and consequences.
Intervenes? Where? In white house?
This is incredibly dumb. Hopefully some GitHub exec intervenes. Edit: Happy to take the karma hit. Stupid is stupid, regardless of jurisdiction and consequences.
Why would an exec intentionally violate US law for this?
Why are these people assuming GitHub is some sort of an open source authority. Is it so difficult to understand it’s a company that hosts free and open source projects like any other service? The ignorance is just baffling.
Why would you call it either ignorant or baffling? Do you expect Iranian users to have a deep understanding of American export laws and the political intricacies that might follow from Microsoft's acquisition? This is an completely understandable reaction regarding Github's block against Iranian accounts. Github as been around for over 10 years, and this never happened before.
Why are these people assuming GitHub is some sort of an open source authority. Is it so difficult to understand it’s a company that hosts free and open source projects like any other service? The ignorance is just baffling.
Perhaps the time to self-host your projects just like how Mastodon allows self-hosting an instance is more important than ever, which will probably be better for open-source instead of centralizing and increasing our dependency on GitHub.
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Why would an exec intentionally violate US law for this?
Because it's the right thing to do and MS has the power to do it.
It sucks, but that's the whole point of sanctions.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why would you call it either ignorant or baffling? Do you expect Iranian users to have a deep understanding of American export laws and the political intricacies that might follow from Microsoft's acquisition? This is an completely understandable reaction regarding Github's block against Iranian accounts. Github as been around for over 10 years, and this never happened before.
Github owned by Github. But this is something different. It is Github owned by Microsoft. Acquisitions, in general, do not end well for the established user-base. Suggestion: move you repositories! Host your own repositories! Use something different, like Gerrit, to spice up your development! Take matters in your own hand! Own your data, own your compute!
Oh right, common sense and basic logic only apply when the involved entities are American. For everyone else it's all about hypocrisy and double standards in the purpose of nationalist chest-thumping.