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   Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 11:31:11 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

   It'll be funny if, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of Microsoft's founding (not something to celebrate in my opinion, of course), Trump's tariffs could cause people to choose non-US-owned technologies, i.e. Linux. I'd be ok with that.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 11:31:09 JST 翠星石

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     @lightweight Proprietary version of the kernel, Linux are US controlled (with restrictions on who can be a maintainer - i.e you can't be a maintainer with commit access if you are from Russia) and the trademark is US controlled too.
     
     While GNU is primarily US developed, there is no effort to make it US controlled (the maintainer decision process doesn't take into account which country the developer is from).
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:01:11 JST 翠星石

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     @lightweight @apropos Yes, it has already been softforked into GNU Linux-libre.
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     Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿 (lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:01:13 JST Dave Lane :flag_tino: 🇳🇿

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     @apropos @Suiseiseki seems to me that either could be forked pretty trivially if the US was being boycotted. Sure, the original devs wouldn't be as likely working on it, but let's not forget that Torvalds is Finnish even if he's been in the US for many years.

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     of nothing (apropos@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:01:15 JST of nothing

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     @Suiseiseki @lightweight a better suggestion is OpenBSD which is 'based in Canada' and didn't have to deal with US export controls on crypto.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 12:01:47 JST 翠星石

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     @apropos @lightweight "Open"BSD is proprietary software that isn't even completely source-available, thus that's a terrible suggestion.