This surely is a matter that does not affect everyone equally, but I can speak from my point of view and my relationship with openSUSE. I live in the U.S. and this bill will actually affect em in case I want to access a foreign website which may have been shut down because of this bill. Accordingly, let's say that the website in question is opensuse.org. I will not be able to connect with the artists that I work with and the artwork that I need to provide for the project. I will not be able to communicate, neither participate of this community. That would be a great loss for me. To see that opensuse.org is actually part of this blackout makes me feel included in the problem, for it DOES affect people in the community like me. Thank you openSUSE for showing that in this community, my problems are your problems too. Andy (anditosan) PS: Don't forget to submit your wallpaper before saturday for 12.2 :D On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 10:47 AM, Guido Berhoerster <gber@opensuse.org> wrote:
- Jim Henderson <hendersj@gmail.com> [2012-01-18 18:04]:
On Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:25:00 -0500, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
- Joop Boonen <joop.boonen@boonen.org> [01-18-12 04:03]:
On Wed, January 18, 2012 9:51 am, Per Jessen wrote:
Just my opinion - I think openSUSE should stay far away from politics of any kind.
I don't think this is politics, this is about our internet freedom.
I agree that openSUSE supports the SOPA blackout.
+1
Same here.
One thing to consider is the potential impact of a law like PIPA or SOPA (the latter of which is apparently dead for the time being) on those outside the US.
openSUSE and open source is about freedom. As has been pointed out already, the nature of OSS projects is political.
How would we like it if the US government decided to shut down the openSUSE wiki because we link to the Packman repository, which contains code that violates DMCA?
The slippery slope here isn't participation in the blackout. The slippery slope is a large, technologically literate population losing the freedom to participate in an OSS project because they can't access it - and have no recourse to resolve it. No trial, no jury.
So when is www.opensuse.org going to protest against Chinese internet censorship? Your argument applies there just as well (and probably in numerous other cases).
Guido Berhoerster
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