Not more than or less than using American or Israeli products.
It's more likely they'd introduce a security flaw that is hard to detect in the OSS code. If someone finds, they'd just claim it was a security incident which is now fixed (and then they'd move to another masked flaw).
Generally not. Most software does not have reproducible builds, so the checksums would be unlikely to match.
Then build your own binaries. I'm sure the Russian government wouldn't struggle to do this.
Open source == a level of independence from sanctions and foreign government spying.
It's an entire category.
Not defending any of the US' wars, but it's a little disingenuous to compare them to the Ukrainian conflict.
So invading and bombing other countries is now fine as long as you don't annex them? Good to know that's how far the goalposts have moved.
That's an absolutely insane comparison.
Police are funded from your taxes to protect you. Countries haven't paid taxes tot he US to come invade/drone strike them.
In your country, do police officers from other countries routinely break into your house to tear it up, steal your shit and beat you up for doing nothing? Sounds more like criminals than police.
https://securingdemocracy.gmfus.org/incident/chinese-serbian...
In all seriousness, America does not pull their weapon to prevent bad things from happening (or at least, not primarily).
The US primarily works through Nato and the UN to intervene in their 'world police' role, but they are happy to start other conflicts without the support of Nato and the UN (see Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, ~~Korea~~).
If the US were really the 'world police', then where were they in Rwanda, in Sudan, in North Korea, in Sri Lanka, in Nigeria, in Myanmar, in DRC, in Ethopia, what are they doing for the Uyghurs, the Rohingyas...
EDIT: see correction from OfSanguineFire, I was wrong about Korea, which was indeed a UN-led intervention.
The US involvement in the Korean War was organized under the nascent UN.[0] "During the course of the war, 22 nations contributed military or medical personnel to UN Command. Although the United States led the UNC and provided the bulk of its troops and funding, all participants formally fought under the auspices of the UN, with the operation classified as a 'UN-led police action'."
But is the annexing part the part that really matters or is it the countless dead and wounded civilians?
Do you mean like not calling it an intervention? It's been sometime, but I don't think the Ukrainians care too much about Russia calling it a “special operation”…
Suppose that the USA works in the same way, bombing and shelling civilians every day, torturing and raping women and children, launching massive attacks on power plants during winter to freeze the population to death, abducting children from their parents etc. Suppose all this was true. Would it give Russia a moral excuse to do what they are doing?
It then veered towards people saying that actually, it's different when Americans invade countries.
What do you think ethnic Russians abroad are? It's displacing locals with poor rural Russians to try a land grab.
Some people literally wake up suddenly within Russia, since Russia is moving borders 100 m. / night.