The Document Foundation suspends RusBITech from its Advisory Board
Following a short exchange of opinions with several community members, as of Saturday 26th of February 2022, TDF has suspended RusBITech’s membership in the Advisory Board.
While TDF does not get involved in politics in any way, the apparent involvement of RusBITech with the Russian Federation’s military complex creates a serious moral concern in the current situation.
We have reached out to RusBITech to explain why suspending – and possibly cancelling – their membership is a necessary step, based on the information we have been able to gather from their website and other trusted online sources. In the past, we have worked constructively with RusBITech’s representatives, and the decision is in no way related to the people themselves and our cooperation around free open source software.
The Document Foundation asks all FOSS advocates and supporters, and all LibreOffice community members, contributors and users across the world to work for peace in these challenging times, and hopes sincerely that the current crisis will soon be over. We will reassess our decision after that.
Further updates will be published when more information will be made available.
The Board of The Document Foundation
Your decision is IMHO correct and I agree.
What’s the reason ?
I don’t think that the statement needs a further explanation, as the reason is provided in the second paragraph: “the apparent involvement of RusBITech with the Russian Federation’s military complex”, which is based on information gathered from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RusBITech and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astra_Linux).
AstraLinux is debian derivative https://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census/AstraLinux
Apply your logic till the end, stop using Nginx and replace it with Apache:
$ curl -vvv https://www.documentfoundation.org/ | grep Server
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Server: nginx/1.10.3
Nginx is russian:
https://www.reddit.com/r/nginx/comments/t1i0f8/nginx_is_russian_please_boycott_it/
Agree and support that decisiion. I am happy TDF is brave enough for that.
So any organisation involved in developing any software which is used by any military involved in aggression outside its borders is to be boycotted? Just to be clear.
I’m all for it by the way, but obviously we need to be consistent.
Now just listen to yourself and take a closer look at what you are doing. You consider yourself independent and not every decision you make is forced. If you do not exclude Russia, block it, then I will block you and exclude you from everywhere. The Russians call it a herd of sheep. Where one ram goes, the whole herd goes, whether it’s a pasture or an abyss. For interest, just read George Orwell’s book “1984”. So this is about you. You begin to express “your civic position”, only because if you suddenly express your point of view, which will differ from the one that the state requires of you, you will be trampled. Trample the state, trample the CIA branch named Facebook (it’s not for nothing that they changed the name of the corporation to META) how many scandals there were around them. So ask yourself: where is the totalitarian society: In Russia: Or you have: So I can congratulate you, you have built your totalitarian society, your digital concentration camp! Congratulations!
And dear sirs? The Tails distribution is being developed by the US military and is positioned as a “means for anonymous use of the Internet.” The main thing here is not to burst out laughing!)))))) The US military and anonymity are two concepts that are completely incompatible)))))))))) God open their eyes to all of them!
Thank you for that decision. And in general, distancing the organisation from any military involvement would be a good step forward, in my opinion.
“While TDF does not get involved in politics in any way”
Did you read the article you wrote?