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Tech without borders? The open source community is considering abandoning support for Russian CPUs

Technology has no borders, I believe many people have heard of this sentence. In the past few years, there have been many people who support this view and feel that technology is the world's.

But in fact, it has been punched in the face again and again, especially recently, even the open source community has considered giving up support for Russian CPUs, do you dare to say that technology has no borders?

Tech without borders? The open source community is considering abandoning support for Russian CPUs

According to media reports, the open source community OpenBLAS previously added support for the Russian Elbrus E2000 processor.

But recently, in view of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, OpenBLAS developers are now discussing whether to give up support for these Russian-made CPUs, and whether to remove these support codes.

Why delete these codes, because some people think that The Russian Elbrus processor, currently and in the future, is used for devices such as military equipment and cannot be supported.

Tech without borders? The open source community is considering abandoning support for Russian CPUs

What is the open source project, its essence is not the same as the general commercial project, the open source project does not belong to any individual or organization, as long as it abides by the conditions of the open source protocol, the open source product can be customized into its own personalized product by modifying the code, the performance is really a product without borders.

But it is clear that open source projects have no borders, and the people who maintain these projects have borders, so it is obviously open source things, and finally it is necessary to delete the Elbrus processor for Russia, which is really a slap in the face of those who say that technology has no borders.

Tech without borders? The open source community is considering abandoning support for Russian CPUs

Seriously, when your technology is very strong and others need your technology, they will tell you that technology has no borders and want you to take it out. When other people's technology is very strong and you need other people's technology, technology has borders.

Technology companies have borders, scientific and technological personnel also have borders, only by mastering technology in their own hands, they are qualified to say that science and technology have no borders, otherwise they are just deceiving themselves, what do you think?

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