Re: no to war in Ukraine

[Christopher Dimech <dimech@gmx.com>]

> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2022 at 11:18 PM
> From: "Jacob Hrbek" <kreyren@rixotstudio.cz>
> To: "Dmitry Gutov" <dgutov@yandex.ru>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: no to war in Ukraine
>
>  > There is a lot of Free Software written by Russians that you are are 
> almost certainly using. Maybe not entirely but at least in part.  -- Gutov
> 
> I am slav with lot of russians and ukrainians friends you can't even 
> imagine how much this hurts me to do this as someone who loves and uses 
> Free Software in everything and who hates restrictions on privacy and 
> freedom and who is endlessly appreciate of all the work that russian 
> citizens did for Free Software and for me like all the helping that i 
> got with issues including kindness of submitting a patches for a 
> problems that i had, because I feel fucking sick and guilty, my mental 
> health is in absolute shit and i didn't sleep for more then 3 hours a 
> day since the war started blaming myself for all the work that i've done 
> on Free Software and in Free Software Activism in the last ~14 years, 
> because my work in Free Software contributed to the capability of 
> russian military to do this war to bomb cities full of my brothers and 
> sisters, killing newborns, children, elderly and committing war crimes 
> against unarmed citizens scared for their life who are hiding at their 
> homes.

Your work benefits everybody, remember that.  Don't let guilt turn you
into a vegetable.  Am quite sure that you have not done much direct work
for Putin that helps him coordinate his plan better.

Please continue with your good work.
 

>  > And not all of us support this terrible, unjust war. There are 
> anti-war protests all around the world, including Moscow and 
> Saint-Petersburg. -- Gutov
> 
> Russian citizens have a major role in this war i know the cost of 
> opposing putin in russia some of my family even experienced it first 
> hand in what happened before the Velvet Revolution in Czechia, but it's 
> no where near the cost that ukrainians are paying right now.
> 
> Please go join them and please convince others to do the same. The whole 
> world supports ukrainians and the whole world will support russians 
> overthrowing that war criminal in moscow, but there has to be more 
> people doing the protests and calling on the russian forces to oppose 
> their leader to do it.
> 
> On 2/27/22 02:10, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> > On 27.02.2022 02:02, Jacob Hrbek wrote:
> >>   > FOSS people saying somewhere no to war?
> >>
> >> I do and I've made a statement on that in
> >> https://qoto.org/@kreyren/107851975317924221 in short taking steps to
> >> reduce russian access to my software and hardware by revoking the right
> >> to use, study, improve and distribute + considering to take identity
> >> verification and vetting for sensitive projects such as open-source
> >> aircraft that could be used as a drone.
> > There is a lot of Free Software written by Russians that you are are
> > almost certainly using. Maybe not entirely but at least in part.
> >
> > And not all of us support this terrible, unjust war. There are anti-war
> > protests all around the world, including Moscow and Saint-Petersburg.
> >
> > There are certain kinds of software that are more problematic than
> > others, though. For instance, face recognition software now currently
> > used by Russian government on its citizens was at some point written by
> > probably well-meaning developers. Given how quickly it has been
> > retargeted at protestors, I don't think it's a good idea to have *any*
> > country use such software. Though that ship has probably sailed.
> 
> -- 
> Jacob Hrbek, In support of ukraine sovereignty #supportUkraine
> 
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