So, your point is RMS' decades of mistreating women, and advocacy of pedophilia, is an acceptable price to pay for his decades of damaging Free Software?
But... FOSS already has to obey Washington trade sanctions if it's Americans contributing. That was the whole problem with Americans working on Crypto code back in the 90s, right? That doesn't "open a door" that is already wide open, decades since.
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If the US state department cared enough to shut down github, ie they wanted to deny certain nationalalities contributing code, then I don't think they'd overlook FOSS. This would be one of many conduits flowing in to the decision making, same for GPL alarming automanufacturers.
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This has already happened (not the shutdown of github but denying people access to it)https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/29/github-ban-sanctioned-countries/ …
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