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Software is software, people are people and governments are governments. Stop mixing it all together, it's a hypocrites minefield. If you're feeling so righteous about the countries of who writes your software, just throw your computer out of the window.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_crimes_in_the_Russian_inva...

While that is true, it is also true, that people can easily be forced by bad acting governments to do things to the software they write.

We don't need to condemn the people in general, but we can still be wary of the product they make, while being in the influence zone of certain governments.

1) There's a difference between a government and people living in that country. If my country does something evil, that doesn't mean you should attack me (personally). The firebombing of Dresden by the allies in WWII is widely considered a war crime since it targeted civilians and killed many little children.

2) With sanctions on this war, I see two valid goals: (1) Regime change (2) Not funding / supporting the war. To be clear: Punishment of people in Russia is not a valid goal for sanctions.

3) With a country doing something evil, simply cutting off ties doesn't have much positive effect (see North Korea).

4) Attacking people simply polarizes them to hate you and supports Putin's message.

5) Even under sanctions, there are constructive ways of engagement. These generally center on communications and cultural engagement. Things like rock-and-roll, Disney, Coca Cola, McDonald's and blue jeans played a pretty significant role in the downfall of the Soviet Union. Trade helped open up China (it's not open, but it's a much freer, nicer place to live than 50 years ago, largely due to people doing business across borders).

My general conclusion here:

1) I don't think we should be buying anything from Russia. That provides money to support the war effort.

2) I don't think we should be exporting anything which can in any way be used to help build weapons (e.g. technology, raw materials, etc.).

3) I'm also on the more extreme end of sending more weapons to Ukraine (much more than we have been).

On the other hand, with Russia, I am fully in favor of scientific engagement (think blue whales and not radar research), educational engagement, cultural engagement, as well as things like open source.

Controversially, I'm also supportive of /selling/ luxury goods to Russia. I don't think it supports the regime in any appreciable way, and a Gucci handbag won't help the war effort. It does bring in Western culture and leads to capital outflow.