SourceForge is restricting Syrian users from Uploding/downloading OPEN-SOURCE projects
The open-source small community in Syria is very upset, We are already suffering because of the bad infrastructure of the internet and electricity, I know the last one is so funny but true, Also the Source Forge is not the first or the only site banded Syrian users, Google, Activestate, Mysql, Sun and much more had banded Syrians from downloading/uploading projects or software, for sure that will make our life more difficult than now, and again that will reflects badly on the software industry that’s almost dead, increase piracy, and creates huge problems for university students and educational processes that is BASED on open-source software, as well as it will kill the small open-source projects that has been started recently in Syria.
The USA government have no rights to control the open-source projects, because it’s open-source and these projects are developed by people around the world including people from these banned countries, please Sourceforge read again the open-source definition: “5. No Discrimination Against Persons or Groups”.
Oh! I forgot to tell you about something funny, In Syria We have KFC and Marlboro so WHY CAN NOT WE HAVE GOOGLE CODE OR SOURCEFORGE??!!!. That makes me somehow remember a funny quote when Homer Simpson said “I have 3 kids and no money. Why can’t I have no kids and 3 money?”.
