Obama enforces trade embargo against open source

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The Obama Administration has forced Sourceforge to deny service to its anti-terrorism sanction list. In practical terms this means people in Cuba, North Korea, the Sudan, Syria and Iran get “403 forbidden” messages when they try to access sourceforge.org addresses. (Here’s how the Armenian Private School in Toronto, Canada displays 403 errors.)

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Honourable course

The only honourable course for any Free Software organisation that is victimised in this fashion is to close down ALL distribution services with the message;

403: President Obama has dictated that we are no longer permitted to FREELY distribute our software.

Oppression remains oppression whether it is Chinese sponsored, or US sponsored.

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