I’ve seen many threads suggesting products but they often don’t mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn’t be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

  • Emma Liv@lemmy.ca
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    39
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    14 hours ago

    Counterpoint: Fedora is a testing bed for Red Hat. One of Red Hat’s notable customers is the US military. I’d prefer to stay off that path if I can help it. It’s a matter of trust, and it’s a matter of indirectly contributing. I’ve seen people say the same things about Deepin and everyone nods in agreement, but why the hell should I trust a US project, for the same reasons?

    • RushLana@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      32
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      13 hours ago

      Honestly this should be a wake call to the FOSS community that we are way too reliant on the US.

      Every default we have is US centric and if FOSS is really meant for everyone we should move away from that.

    • Shareni@programming.dev
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      17
      arrow-down
      6
      ·
      edit-2
      14 hours ago

      why the hell should I trust a US project

      Bekuz Amerika fridom wurld polis, best kontri in da world!

      But on a more serious note, did you know Linus banned those Russian contributors like a month after redhat and DoD signed a new deal. Can you guess who owns RH stocks?