Hello All: During my visit to Syria, I needed to download JDEE. I was surprised to find out that SourceForge is controlling the distribution of opensource projects by banning specific countries from accessing their contents. After googling, I found these links:
http://www.downloadsquad.com/2010/01/25/sourceforge-blocks-iran-north-korea-syria-sudan-and-cuba/ http://arabcrunch.com/2010/01/following-clintons-internet-freedom-speech-us-based-sourceforge-blocked-syria-sudan-iran-korea-cuba-is-open-source-still-really-open.html I understand this is not the best issue to be raised on a public user help mailing list, however, if I was an open source developer, I am morally obligated to take some action to make sure this software is available for everyone without discrimination. IT professionals who develop, report bugs, use, help or document, are contributors as well and they have the same rights to this software like everybody else. SourceForge and googlecode are violating the terms of open source. Please help the open source to remain open. Thank you. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ jdee-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jdee-users
