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Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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Comments do drastically differ between .ml and .world. On .ml, you'll see more sympathy towards Russia and China.
But the issue on hand is way bigger than that. It's importance is not in Russia getting sanctioned somewhere else - it's in the destruction of openness and trust in the open-source community, which has far more reaching consequences. What has been done is pretty unprecedented - and dangerous.
And I'm surprised other Linux communities are silent on the matter.
I can't stress how much the western supremacists are off the rails on this one: agreeing with the standard sanctions policy commonly used by the US, of punishing entire civilian populations based on the actions of their government, regardless of how you feel about that government and its actions.
Code is code, the nationality of the person shouldn't be used to exclude them. ppl know how most of us here feel about Israel but I would never even think of excluding an Israeli contributor to any of the projects I work on.
Are they excluding contributions or maintainer status?
Half the problem with .ml is the even blend of sensible takes and wackadoodle nonsense. That's the systemic reason everyone who's not pro-wackadoodle catches themselves going "what the f-- oh, it's a .ml community, yeesh."
@mindbleach @Allero From what I'm seeing from Lemmy, I would estimate the wackadoodle's to be much higher than 50%.
The other half of what's wrong with .ml is the blatant censorship all over the goddamn site.
The userbase's downvote-happy inability to take criticism barely matters.