Is open SUSE Blocked on Cuba?
Is open SUSE Blocked on Cuba?
So I saw on this post the upsetting information that fedora is blocked on cuba, and I Wanted to check if the same was true of the downstream distributions, in particular open SUSE tumbleweed, as well.
Edit: By what it seems they put it there more as a way to reduce liability(once the us trade embargoes seem to include most anything with US developed technology, although I do not understand that very well or if it does apply to open source stuff), in case the US comes a looking, because it does not describe any tools or measures to prevent it, in fact it even states that it is not geoblocked anywhere.
I commented about SUSE having a similar export policy as Fedora in that post, and from what I read, it applies to OpenSUSE, too.
I found this forum post about this topic:
I mean, I honestly don't see a point for using fedora or suse with all the other distros we already have.
I use Garuda in my gaming machine, manjaro in my work laptop. And have a usb drive with puppy, mint, debian, tails and kali.
Sure but I do enjoy the idea of rolling release and I don't want to handle the potential conflicts from AUR with native repositories, I also like yast, and I feel a little annoyed with the implication of your comment, unless I'm mistaken, in which case I apologize, it seems that you're implying that my choice of open suse is poorly thought through therefore I should consider changing.
Sorry if I sound that way to you, english ain't my first language so my sentence composition is poor sometimes.
I don't think suse is a bad choice of system. What I mean is that I think that with all the many choices we have at linux you can do fine with something else that is not tied to a company with some bias against people like us.
Maybe you could use any distro with distro box? are you familiar with this concept?
Strange, I haven't experienced any conflicts of AUR vs native repos, but I do experience conflicts of native vs external repositories in openSUSE Tumbleweed all the time.
(I'm not judging your choice, just saying my experience is different.)
On topic, I kind of wonder why would SUSE be blocked in Cuba. It's not an American company, after all.
OpenSUSE is not downstream of Fedora, however SUSE has the same thing in their terms of use
I'm gonna keep using Fedora anyway, there's nothing else quite like Fedora Kinoite
By what it seems they put it there more as a way to reduce liability, in case the US comes a looking, because it does not describe any tools or measures to prevent it, in fact it even states that it is not geoblocked anywhere
PS: forgive my ignorance, I thought that any fedora based distro, would be considered downstream of Fedora if that's not the case what would be the actual definition of downstream? Honestly asking here, just wanna understand better