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this post was submitted on 04 Mar 2025
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I mean, any FOSS project from anywhere could be being used by a fascist government or corporation, to be fair. That's literally one of the very serious and real downsides of FOSS. It's able to be used for good or ill.
I mean, it can easily be argued that the US corporate technology class has benefited far more from FOSS than end-users worldwide.
Amazon's EC2 especially:
Amazon leveraged FOSS to create their own successful closed-source offshoot. AWS pretty much runs the web. Amazon... is not a good company.
That being said, the US has chosen to be isolationist, whether all of its citizens agree with it or not. Having less of a presence on the international stage, including in the FOSS world, is simply a consequence of isolationism. So boycotting US FOSS is likely to happen in some ways on purpose, and in some ways just from diminished international respect and involvement.