[hollerith]

There are probably international traders who can tell a similar story with Linux replaced with "the US" and Windows replaced with "Russia", but I wouldn't consider that similar story to be an argument for ending the sanctions on Russia.

However, there is an important difference between the sanctions on Russia and the strategy of the pro-Linux "activist" that started this thread: namely, Windows is so heavily entrenched in the niche of enterprise IT that there is no significant chance of Linux's replacing it in that niche with the result that there is no realistic chance of a positive effect of this activism that might cancel out the negative effect you describe. So, I am tentatively in agreement with you.