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by biglearner1day 1367 days ago
This is a win. Despite how we feel about Russia and its government, it's a good move to decrease Microsoft, Apple, and Google their global power. Now we hope that the open source community stays true to their open source intent and allows Russians to use open source software the same as any other person.
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These are just dreams. Technically, you already could download red flag linux (Chinese), but it uses Chinese repositories, many packages rewritten by Chinese, and you cannot sure if they not inserted some spyware.
When you want to defeat Russia, but should to supply them a reliable software.
When you want to provide others with reliable software, but are unable to keep your personal beliefs and politics out of it.
Consider providing non-free software. This is one of my favorite examples of a non-free license: https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil
Hah, nice.

My personal favorite would be wtfpl[0].

[0] http://www.wtfpl.net/