[saltamimi]

Protestware as a whole has never worked to solve anything. Awareness of a particular issue is the only positive thing "protest" software has successfully tried, with the second order effect being better supply chain management.

I don't use Linux or Xsnow but it baffles me how distributions would allow something like this. Sure, it's just flags now, but if you look at faker and colors.js, you'll see the other side of the coin of what happens when you allow software like this.

[LtWorf]

Distributions didn't "allow" anything. The author just uploaded it. That's all there is to it.

The asset file isn't called "ukraine flag" so unless you open all the images or run this as a russian you will probably be completely unaware of this behaviour.

[saltamimi]

Sorry, the article didn't really say if it was upstream or only in Debian. I assumed it was only Debian.

I still stand on the point that stuff like this should be frowned upon regardless of stance on issue.