Re:Russia to legalize software piracy
by squarefoot on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:09AM
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> So the Russian government are probably already in the process of transitioning to FLOSS.
That might seem ironical in multiple ways: a dictatorship where freedom of expression is suppressed that promotes FLOSS because they don't trust closed software. Maybe the western world can learn a lesson or two from that.
Its probably more that they care about having the source code and being able to modify and rebuild it rather than the FLOSS licenses. For most proprietary software you don't have the source.
Re:Russia to legalize software piracy
by ihateolives on Monday March 07, 2022 @07:19AM
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> So the Russian government are probably already in the process of transitioning to FLOSS.
That would be the only free thing in Russia then.
Re:Russia to legalize software piracy
by throw_m239339 on Monday March 07, 2022 @08:02AM
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> So the Russian government are probably already in the process of transitioning to FLOSS.
There is something absurd with that sentence, Software licenses are completely irrelevant if piracy is legal.
Exactly, they aren't going to respect your FLOSS license conditions.
FLOSS license conditions aren't very well respected even in the West. Hopefully the lawsuit against Vizio will set a precedent that makes it possible for users to enforce them as well as copyright holders.
Apparently the Russian government are talking about creating their own GitHub replacement, as China did with gitee.com.
https://writing.kemitchell.com/2022/03/07/You-And-Whose-GitH...
So the Russian government are probably already in the process of transitioning to FLOSS.