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by BaconPackets 1566 days ago
That is interesting. Red Hat is a major player within the telecom industry. I do wonder how support will work for Russian Telcos running VNF on Openstack.

I assume that all contracts have some force majeure actions baked in.
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gremlinsinc 1566 days ago
That would presuppose that a NATO sanctioned company could sue companies that no longer due business in their country due to war, which I'm sure is probably a decent reason to terminate a contract.

In other words: Russian businesses are just f**ed. The only option is - build your own tools, or use only russian based tools, services, etc - or go back to doing things in excel spreadsheets and paper/pen.

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brandmeyer 1566 days ago
They can lobby their government to stop invading their neighbors.
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agul29 1566 days ago
Saudis, Americans etc. don't have to. Why should they?
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brandmeyer 1566 days ago
Americans regularly protest warfare without fear of prosecution. American companies and individuals regularly avoid selling products to US-DOD and/or ICE. Witness the controversy surrounding Panantir, or DOD's JEDI project, for two recent examples. American companies and individuals regularly sanction Israel for its behavior in Palestine despite being one of our closest allies: witness the BDS movement.
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int_19h 1566 days ago
Their government will simply call them traitors and imprison them.

I mean this most literally - even calling what's going on in Ukraine right now an "invasion" is already a crime in Russia.

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patrickaljord 1566 days ago
They don't need to build their own tools in this case, they can just use https://almalinux.org/ which is the new CentOS, the redhat equivalent of open source. As for the need for tech support, these are local Russians so they should be ok.
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adenner 1566 days ago
I think Microsoft also pulled out of Russia as well so Excel is off the table as well.
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MrDisposable 1566 days ago
LibreOffice is a decent replacement.
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tssva 1566 days ago
Canonical self-submitted one of their blog posts the other day proclaiming that OpenStack isn't dead. One of their examples was the deployment of Canonical's OpenStack version by the Russian telco MTS. I heard a peep from them regarding their plans to continue operations in Russia.
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cyberpunk 1566 days ago
Deutsche Telekom's public cloud is running it also...
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