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That would presuppose that a NATO sanctioned company could sue companies that no longer due business in their country due to war, which I'm sure is probably a decent reason to terminate a contract.

In other words: Russian businesses are just f**ed. The only option is - build your own tools, or use only russian based tools, services, etc - or go back to doing things in excel spreadsheets and paper/pen.

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They can lobby their government to stop invading their neighbors.

Saudis, Americans etc. don't have to. Why should they?

Americans regularly protest warfare without fear of prosecution. American companies and individuals regularly avoid selling products to US-DOD and/or ICE. Witness the controversy surrounding Panantir, or DOD's JEDI project, for two recent examples. American companies and individuals regularly sanction Israel for its behavior in Palestine despite being one of our closest allies: witness the BDS movement.

Their government will simply call them traitors and imprison them.

I mean this most literally - even calling what's going on in Ukraine right now an "invasion" is already a crime in Russia.

They don't need to build their own tools in this case, they can just use https://almalinux.org/ which is the new CentOS, the redhat equivalent of open source. As for the need for tech support, these are local Russians so they should be ok.

I think Microsoft also pulled out of Russia as well so Excel is off the table as well.

LibreOffice is a decent replacement.

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