time to move to switzerland ?

Posted Oct 24, 2024 9:18 UTC (Thu) by kleptog (subscriber, #1183)
In reply to: time to move to switzerland ? by MarcB
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

>Sanctions are exactly like you want them. They are either personal (this will in all likelihood affect no one here) or against specific organizations, including companies.

It's the secondary sanctions that get you. It's not "you can't do business with entity X (in Russia)", but "you can't do business with entity Y (in the US/EU/elsewhere in the world) because they're still doing business with entity X (in Russia)". The chain can be arbitrarily deep. It becomes like an oil spill of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.

They only work because the US has quite a lot of influence on international currency flows, which explains the continuing moves to promote alternative systems. Secondary sanctions are known to be fairly ineffective and often self-defeating, but they are still quite popular. In particular they suffer from over-enforcement (like here). Companies using Redhat are afraid they might get sanctioned because they have a relationship with LF which has a relationship with Linus who merges pulls requests from an developer in America who happens to have a Russian email address.