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

[Bob]

Your Scottish/American dude. I mean jimmy

Ben Dembroski wrote:
> 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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