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Tencent says it's not a Chinese military company and is willing to sue the US Department of Defense if it isn't removed from a blacklist (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] tekato@lemmy.world 4 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It is not a mischaracterization though. Open source projects can be forced to stop accepting contributions from employees of sanctioned companies, which would include Tencent employees if sanctioned. Anyways, Tencent is not being sanctioned here, so I guess it doesn’t really matter.

Also, Linus was definitely forced to kick the Russian maintainers out by USA sanctions.

[–] Eldritch@lemmy.world 2 points 8 minutes ago

Force implies force. If you have evidence that it was actually done by force. Against Torvald's etc will. Please share it. Otherwise get out of here with your gasslighting.

Any project open source or otherwise can and does restrict contribution.