Dear Jörg,

Note: this is my personal opinion and does not engage anyone else.

Whatever we think about the current situation, the 4 freedoms that define
free/libre open source software absolutely forbid us, or anybody, to do
that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

Cheers,


--
boris




On Tue, Mar 1, 2022 at 1:28 PM <jkubitz-ecli...@gmx.de> wrote:

> Dear fellow eclipse contributors,
>
> Russian invaded Ukraine. As a response international sanctions taken
> place.
>
> Sanctions are not only done by governments but also by sports, business
> corporations and individuals. I ask eclipse foundation to join sanctions:
>
> Please assist all efforts to stop that war by supporting the export
> control of key technologies.
>
>
>
> In special Russia and China are trying to get independent from foreign
> computers by developing domestic hardware platforms “Elbrus” [1] and
> “LongArch” [2]. Those would bypassing hardware export control [3]. But
> hardware is not enough. They also need software. And that is where eclipse
> comes into play. Unless we explicitly support such hardware platform our
> software won’t run on domestic hardware [4].
>
>
>
> I do not like that the world is getting separated. It should be free and
> united. We need to send a signal that open software is not used to suppress
> people.
>
>
>
> Jörg Kubitz
>
>
>
> [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elbrus_2000
>
> [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
>
> [3]
> https://www.reuters.com/technology/taiwans-tsmc-says-comply-with-export-control-rules-russia-2022-02-25/
>
> [4] https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=578951
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