I've seen many threads suggesting products but they often don't mention FOSS projects, which should always be preferred to corporate software. With FOSS you are already boycotting capitalism, on either side. Free and Open Source ignores borders and shouldn't be categorized in nationalist terms, no matter where some of the maintainers happen to live.

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[–] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Agree with the main point, though disagree that FOSS is "boycotting capitalism", many for-profit companies contribute to FOSS and FOSS can be used by for-profit companies too, much of today's capitalism runs on FOSS.

The point of free software is that it does not have owners, so what exactly are you "boycotting"?

[–] endofline@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Tell it to the Russian Linux devs that foss has no owners :-) Theory and practice are 2 different things

[–] e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 8 hours ago

FOSS doesn't mean that you are entitled to a place at the table or that your contributions have to be accepted. Nothing prevents these Russian devs from continuing to to work on the kernel.

[–] 0ops@lemm.ee 1 points 6 hours ago

They can fork it, if nobody wants to work with them anymore that's their problem