@wwahammy why the fuck are people complying in advance? Where is the commitment to software freedom?

@wwahammy @artemis Everyone involves in proposing and merging these needs to be deemed untrustworthy and unwelcome in real FOSS.

@dalias @artemis 1000% agree. It's shameful.

@wwahammy @artemis Like seriously. Even if you weren't going to consider complying with this unthinkable, adopting something like this that's a policy matter should be a process that requires a proposal and feedback from the community, with a long enough time window for that to happen. Not rushed-through changes by shadowy actors who show up just to do what some malicious external authority demands.

@dalias @wwahammy @artemis This feels like an open-source supply chain attack. We have already seen it happen with state-sponsored actors putting exploitable bugs into Linux. The people doing this may be other state-sponsored actors, or sponsored by private companies.