No much. He would have to declare if conflict of interest or to IRS. But strong feeling that is not the case. Again, if evidence was there, the FBI and even Trump would be all over with the evidence. This guy, probably had no even Confidential Security Clearance (lowest one). The only thing I can think of is industrial espionage but those are brought by the injured party and goes to a normal judicial channel... nothing indicates that is the case here.

I get in on UK now... Japan... gosh, I hope not but I am very afraid that is the underlying truth.

You have a point... a scary point!

Those that claim it is a "Special Operation" say it to deny the word invasion... of course, is nonsense. That is what I was referring to. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

I presume the concern is governments banning apps left and right so a federated repository will be mostly immune from that. But you are right, technologically is not as straight forward.

What surprised me is that F-Droid is avoided by many FOSS enthusiasts (due to signing it themselves so delayed updates and potential tampering). Aurora is great but 100% on Google's merci and Google frequently cuts its winds. Did not know Aptoide was community based... have to check it out.

Thanks for the article! Yes, South America is not free from this. One thing I have learned in my life is that how similar people we are everywhere... only circumstances make us seem different. Long gone are my admiration for Scandinavians! What most South America seems however (specially if a sizeable country), is distant enough from China, US and Russia to be easily dragged along in a conflict... and also their governments are weak enough to implement a global draft for instance.

Independently of one thinks of the invasion (yes invasion!) of Russia in Ukraine, any potential "peacekeeping" force should not only behave in an exemplary manner but also avoid any appearance of bias, in order to maintain the highest standards of integrity and reputation. Keir Starmer's army, let alone Macron's, sorry to say, I think does not fit that... UN or from non belligerent parties is the only option.

Re to your EDIT: Again, what did you see bad in my comments... wanted European Union no relying much on American corporations, favor impartiality from the FOSS community? What I don't understand from you so much concerned anti_Trump pro-democracy is that if Trump expels me (I am an European Union citizen in the US), and if I had some prominence he would, you will be the first one clapping. You are no so different from the ones you claim to oppose.

Sure... but in my statement with 9 claims you have not disproved a single one... but wasting plenty of time to all of us with "f*ck offs". Of course, it can be coincidental, but something gives me that if you are anti-establishment, odds are you can easily get disfranchised or disappeared in one way or another. What evidence Romania gave for the cancellation of the elections and banning the front runners... Russian interference?? How? with bots in social media really... have you seen any study published on that? Any.. do check?? The only thing I know is Romanians have been always highly skeptical of their government (that comes from the communist times) but since 3 ears ago are of all the latest EU rhetoric (although they benefit greatly from EU) and doubt Russia is responsible of that. Regarding "concern troll"... I disprove all basically all populist politicians, specially Le Pen, but also believe there is always a bit of truth in populism and burring or worse yet, ridiculing it, it is highly counterintuitive; address what they misunderstand. Brexit and Trump happened because of dismissive and insulting comments like yours addressed to people with concerns.

A a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online... what was so offensive or provocative? I am new in social media and even posting with my real name. I thought lemmy would be different from what i see in other media... and one of the first comments I get from an observation is "Fuck off". Don't worry, I'll go back to my shell but if you are a genuine person, think that those type of responses is what make the internet so toxic today.

Go on... I don't like much all these populists/narcissistic/nationalists but first Poland's Lech Kaczyński dies in a airplane accident, Slovakia's Robert Fico gets shot, Romania's election gets cancelled and then the front runner banned, and then the second banned too (have any evidence been published?!). Duterte gets arrested in Manila and sent to the Hague (Philippines is not a ICC signatory).. I remember McAfee and Epstein suicides but miraculously cameras in prisons failed to work... and today in Spain the records from a spy working for the CIA that spied on Assange gets all deleted.... while in Spanish top authorities custody! I am not fan of these eccentric people, but you have to give it to them there is something in our "law and order" system that is "odd" to say the least... and us blindly clapping is worrisome.

I am still no able to get my message through.

Of course, it is easy to fork, is that when you depend solely on a entity that it is prone to abandon you, you wont have the resources to continue the development. US has overwhelmingly all the developers of Fedora. If Fedora wins over all other linux based distros (and at this time it could be easily do in a near future), developers in other countries will move on into other projects (or move to the US). If the US, once Fedora is so clear dominant and Debian and Arch ceased to exists down the road, the US will find it compelling to close source Fedora and leave the rest of the world with a forked version but unable to develop for the time being since there is no Linux experts around left. This is not far fetched, this is what happens with Android and Firefox. If Firefox closes, the dudes in librewolf will survive for a few months (I'm in Librewolf), that is it; none of them are capable of keeping developing Gecko (the engine of Firefox). Imagine that Google close sources Android, no one in the world (besides Huawei) could keep develop it competitively for at least a decade!

I am afraid we are taking different things here... I look in a long perspective view, you in a inmediate future, where, as you said, no big changes if a dominant FOSS project goes hostile. The lack of expertise, culture makes it really hard in fact. Look at this... SWIFT (an interbanking payment system) , when US, in spite being European, dominates it completely, Russia and China has been for half a decade create and alternative... it is not a mayor technically difficult platform to replicate, but it is proven very hard... relying on it for decades had left every country at its merci and now that most of the world wants an alternative still could not come up with a viable alternative. Remember also when France/EU wanted to create a payment system with Iran... well, never came to fruition. Haven relying in the US for decades left Europe powerless for these innovations. The same could happen with Fedora if we start adopting it in mass.