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Same here. For now it's only barring contributors which won't harm actual users much, but that could change in the future with the precedent this is setting.
What's the point of "FOSS" at that point if it's not so different from corporate products, being similarly vulnerable to sanctions? I could see genuine free software being relegated to piracy communities if it goes that far.
FOSS gives people the option to take the original code and create their own version of it in case they don't like what the original maintainers are doing. With closed source you would be stuck and would have to look for something new.