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Re:GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restric... by onyva on Saturday July 27, 2019 @02:01PM (#20543219)
I'm not talking about understanding USA law, and couldn't care less. People, developers especially, should know something about the licenses they're using. Anyways, any company will have to comply with the law. I guess Microsoft in its war against Free Software managed to sow confusion. Free Software and Open Source are about licenses, not hosting services. How would they react, if for example, Microsoft/GitHub will stop hosting Open Source projects for free?

BTW, this is why I deleted my account at GitHub the day the purchase was announced.

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Re:GitHub banned all Iranian users. Our accounts are restric... by yub on Sunday July 28, 2019 @12:04PM (#20548194)
War against open source? They’re the largest corporate contributor to open source, they’ve open sourced a ton of projects, including XAML and .NET Core (which is also now cross platform), and they joined the Open Source Initiative. If you honestly believe 2019 Microsoft is anti-open source, you’re living in the past.
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