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Hetzner is hosted in Germany. AWS is controlled by US company.

US sanction laws are legal nightmare, quicksand that constantly changes. Major global infrastructure projects like Freedesktop should avoid US!

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Software In The Public Interest Inc. (creators of free desktop) is incorporated in New York so they have to follow US sanction law anyways.

Maybe it's time to consider changing it to another country which is actually OSS friendly and doesn't change all the time their politics.

PS: Sorry for the off-topic discussion.

RISC-V International moved from California (IIRC?) to Switzerland for basically this reason.

It's shocking and saddening to think one might need to change from the United States to some other country in order to seek freedom. But here we are

The USA being "Free" has mostly been a myth. It's "Free" if you're a member of the owner class, else you're freedom is subject to the whims of politicians and the wealthy. Aristocracy, really.

Yes agreed, although I think it's worth pointing out that the same is true of virtually every other country as well. Historically at least the US (generally speaking, plenty of people are exceptions throughout the entire history) aspired to freedom and equality, despite falling short.

True, but the spirit of the law died a long time ago, and the vision originally created by the founders has been distorted and "mythified" in favor of the desires and vices of monied interests.

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