[ELECTRON] US Government seeks to control access to FLOSS developers

Simon Yuill simon at lipparosa.org
Tue Jan 26 21:35:06 UTC 2010


Some of you might have seen this already:

http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/SourceForge-Denies-Service-for-Rogue-Nations

SourceForge, one of the biggest support sites for Free 
Open Source Software development, have given in to 
pressure from the US government to block users from 
countries that the government considers 'rogue' states.

best wishes
Si






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