alt Hacker NewsIt’s worth noting that this splits countries into three levels - first without restrictions, second with medium restrictions, third with harsh restrictions.
And the second level, for some reason, includes (among others) a bunch of countries that would normally be seen as close US allies - e.g. some NATO countries (most of Central/Eastern Europe).
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Someone still sees Eastern Europe as a provider of cheap brainpower. This is insulting.
This smells about as well informed as the genius move that forced Ukrainian owner, Max Polyakov, to divest from Firefly Aerospace. A US government position that was widely derided by space industry watchers, and has now been reversed.
This might be a product of the USA being a gerontocracy.
includes (among others) a bunch of countries that would normally be seen as close US allies - e.g. some NATO countries (most of Central/Eastern Europe).
Yeah, this is really a bit insulting.
I see the return of cold war computing model, where many countries had their own computer platforms and programming languages.
Which apparently might be a good outcome to FOSS operating systems, with national distributions like Kylin.
As European I vote for SuSE.