[General] SourceForge banned Syria, Sudan, Iran and others

[Majed B.]

This is absurd! It's killing the whole "Open Source" spirit in favor
of political agendas!

I thought the whole idea was to provide full access, without charge,
to information and projects. If SF is to obey and bow, then they
should move their operations to a country that doesn't manipulate
corporates and organizations for its ill-advised plans.

So if USA one day decided that all of the world are terrorists, are
they going to block SF altogether and restrict it to USA only!??!

Morons.

2010/1/29 bashar abdullah <bashar.abdullah at gmail.com>:
> I think I recall something similar to this on slashdot. One comment
> was US is killing trail rather than tracking it.
>
> This is total crap I say
>
> On Thursday, January 28, 2010, Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar at kuwaitnet.net> wrote:
>> السلام عليكم و رحمة الله تعالى و بركاته
>>
>> "Prohibited Persons
>>
>> You represent you are not a person on a list barring you from receiving
>> services under U.S. laws or other applicable jurisdiction, including
>> without limitations, the Denied Persons List and the Entity List, and
>> other lists issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of
>> Industry and Security, detailed at
>> http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/ListsToCheck.htm (or
>> successor sites thereto). Users residing in countries on the United
>> States Office of Foreign Assets Control sanction list, including Cuba,
>> Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria, may not post Content to, or access
>> Content available through, SourceForge.net."
>>
>> copy from SF Terms Of Use http://wa9.la/c1x
>>
>>
>> with code.google.com preventing them ad now SF, people from these countries are a bit limited access to host their apps or access apps
>>
>>
>>
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       Majed B.