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Can the US government force Canonical and Red Hat to disallow downloads and development from non US countries? (lemm.ee)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Basically the title.

I have seen the EU-OS/Suse discussions for some months now. However, Ubuntu/Arch/Fedora are extremely mature projects. So competing against them will be hard.

I want to know how realistic the scenario (described by the question) is.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Canonical is UK based, so scrub that.

But Redhat, Rocky, Alma are all owned by US legal entities and can absolutely be legally forced to do as you describe.

Technically blocked is something else, mind. We're clever, resourceful and motivated people and US laws wouldn't directly affect us.

However - you're thinking small. US influence of IT is massive. Routers, servers, hardware of all levels. The most enterprise level software is US led. All of these things can be restricted, or tarriffed heavily, or sanctioned entirely. If the US wants to hurt the rest of the world, it just has to tell Broadcom to turn off vmware outside of America. Ditto Cisco, Ditto Dell, Ditto... etc etc. Sure, it would be illegal, but does the American government care about that?

Anyone telling you that "Y won't happen because it's unthinkable" clearly hasn't been paying attention this year.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Redhat Inc is in the US, but Redhat Ltd is Europe (and more I think). I don't know what would happen if the parts of the company had to take different paths for a while. I would assume all the non-US stuff would want to keep making money while the US slogs through crazy...

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