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

[Ben Dembroski]

As the Electron Club's resident American, I can only hang my head in shame.

Again.

Of course the law being enforced in this case doesn't just apply to 
FLOSS developers.  Anyone living in a rouge state wanting to use any US 
based companies web-services are subject to the same restrictions.

I won't even get into the irony / hypocrisy off all this surrounding the 
rhetoric of the whole Google - China love fest.

Ugh.

Yours Humbly,
Ben D.

P.S. Sorry I can't make it along to the social night.  Wife's away so 
home with the Kid.


On 26/01/2010 21:35, Simon Yuill wrote:
> 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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