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Re:Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and... by gremlinsinc on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:27PM (#30602666)
That would presuppose that a NATO sanctioned company could sue companies that no longer due business in their country due to war, which I'm sure is probably a decent reason to terminate a contract.

In other words: Russian businesses are just f**ed. The only option is - build your own tools, or use only russian based tools, services, etc - or go back to doing things in excel spreadsheets and paper/pen.

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Re:Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and... by brandmeyer on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:48PM (#30603032)
They can lobby their government to stop invading their neighbors.
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Re:Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and... by agul29 on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:24PM (#30606342)
Saudis, Americans etc. don't have to. Why should they?
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Re:Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and... by brandmeyer on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @04:19PM (#30607149)
Americans regularly protest warfare without fear of prosecution. American companies and individuals regularly avoid selling products to US-DOD and/or ICE. Witness the controversy surrounding Panantir, or DOD's JEDI project, for two recent examples. American companies and individuals regularly sanction Israel for its behavior in Palestine despite being one of our closest allies: witness the BDS movement.
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Re:Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and... by int_19h on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @06:17PM (#30608703)
Their government will simply call them traitors and imprison them.

I mean this most literally - even calling what's going on in Ukraine right now an "invasion" is already a crime in Russia.

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Re:Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and... by patrickaljord on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @12:45PM (#30602972)
They don't need to build their own tools in this case, they can just use https://almalinux.org/ which is the new CentOS, the redhat equivalent of open source. As for the need for tech support, these are local Russians so they should be ok.
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Re:Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and... by adenner on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @03:07PM (#30606071)
I think Microsoft also pulled out of Russia as well so Excel is off the table as well.
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Re:Red Hat is discontinuing sales and services in Russia and... by MrDisposable on Tuesday March 08, 2022 @05:09PM (#30607879)
LibreOffice is a decent replacement.
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