[Fsf-friends] US politics to FOSS!!

[Nishan Naseer]

On 3/21/07, Vivek Khurana <hiddenharmony at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > * Who's not eligible to participate as a student in Google Summer of
> Code?
> > *
> >
> > Google employees, interns, contractors, family members, or citizens of
> > Iran, Syria, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea and Myanmar (Burma), with whom we
> > are
> > prohibited by U.S. law from engaging in commerce, are ineligible to
> > participate. Mentoring organizations that are taking part in *Google
> > Summer
>
>
> Sounds fine to me. SoC involves making payments to  participating students
> and should be under US taxation law. If US law prohibits any commercial
> activities with these states, then Google can debar citizens of mentioned
> states from participating.  Pay any amount to a person in lie of work is a
> commercial activity.
>
> I don't see politics here.
>
> regards
> VK
> --


I would say, There is politics in anything !


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