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Re:JetBrains Research by maxdo on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:37PM (#32500753)
They are as Czech as google or apple a company from Ireland. they've been part of security incidents involved traces with Russia. Their presence in Russia is huge. Working with them is a potential risk.
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Re:JetBrains Research by mike_hearn on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @04:35PM (#32501370)
"they've been part of security incidents involved traces with Russia"

You mean that some company that ran a poorly secured TeamCity instance and got hacked decided to try and shift the blame to JetBrains, knowing full well that a certain demographic will eat up anything vaguely of the form "Six Degrees of Kevin Russian"?

Yeah no. Most sensible people don't consider a connection as tenuous as "some company that got hacked had misconfigured a product made by a company with offices in country X" as a reasonable thing to make insinuations on.

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Re:JetBrains Research by atemerev on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:48PM (#32500868)
They are closing Russia’s offices right now and offering relocation packages to everyone still left there.

It is somewhat hard to work with Russian security services after this statement: https://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2022/03/11/jetbrains-stateme...

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Re:JetBrains Research by comonoid on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @03:52PM (#32500920)
My sources state that they have closed all Russia's offices and terminated contracts with everyone who haven't relocated.

Update: technically, there are some corporate lawyers and accountants that are working on closing JetBrain's LLC in Russia. But we are talking about software engineers, aren't we?

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Re:JetBrains Research by euos on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @04:07PM (#32501100)
And my sources show otherwise... Offices are closed, I give you that.
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Re:JetBrains Research by euos on Wednesday August 17, 2022 @04:10PM (#32501115)
You'll be surprised how understanding Russian security services are to business climate. Russians are survivalists.

Pretty sure GRU officer was typing that blog entry with one hand, keeping fingers on other hand crossed behind his back.

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