I think there's a legal reason for the embargo--sourceforge apparently also
has such a policy:
http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/
<http://sourceforge.net/blog/clarifying-sourceforgenets-denial-of-site-access-for-certain-persons-in-accordance-with-us-law/>So,
as a US company, they may not have a choice...
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 12:39 AM, Gökhan Sever <gokhanse...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:03 PM, Matthew Brett <matthew.br...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> > Apart from being inflammatory, has anyone considered code.google.com(GC) as
>> > a solution?
>>
>> ;) - speaking as someone with no right to offer an opinion - please,
>> no. Google blocks Cuba from google code completely, for no obvious
>> reason, and a) that seems to me quite wrong and outside the spirit of
>> free software and b) I work there fairly often and it's hard for me to
>> persuade the excellent scientists there to use Python if they are
>> being specifically blocked for political reasons.
>>
>> See you,
>>
>> Matthew
>>
>
> I didn't really know that Google was embargoing countries on their code
> hosting site. I was more inspired after watching this talk Google I/O 2008
> - Project Hosting on Google Code
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62x17hG6Wvo>
>
> It is very interesting for a company that does great things for the OSS
> also blocking code access on certain countries. Thanks for pointing this
> out. Indeed an important point consider.
>
> This is not the first time today my Google integration idea has been
> rejected. During our school's tech forum I asked them the possibilities of
> integrating Google Apps to the university network. The lower cost was a
> reasonable answer, but it is beyond my logic to understand that possible
> plans to integrate something that is not even up (live.edu) :)
>
> --
> Gökhan
>
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