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They could have handled announcing this so much better.
Linus fumbled this hard.
the point that really got me was "I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression?".
in the end, it's nato-stan all day long. tired of this.
Linus set a very bad precedent without causing any real damage. Clearly he was "asked" to do it, but then he did it himself.
One day, Linus might become a traitor - a traitor to the people who followed him. And a traitor to the cause he served all these years. You were the chosen one! You were supposed to fight evil, not join it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YozYt8l-g
Russia is sanctioned for invading Ukraine.
So guess russians will have to maintain their own fork of the kernel, and do their stuff on it? 🤷 as I’ve understood, they are (mainly or wholly) driver maintainers for some russian hardware
Probably. The Baikal project is interesting enough to me in terms of its architecture and it's frustrating to see the maintainers of its drivers being delisted simply because of their nationality.
What about Israel though? This potty-mouth gets paid by Tel Aviv, so he can't speak shit about his Zionist masters. Now, that's some really weak self-integrity.
I guess the lawyers are working for the Linux Foundation? Linux development does not need and started without a legal structure. They could tell the lawyers and the Linux Foundation to get lost. Is the US government going to prosecute individuals for collaborating with individuals from Russia on free software projects? If that's so, maybe wait till that actually happens and see what the courts have to say about that, instead of this anticipatory obedience.
And the rest is some rhetoric parlor trick and/or racist brainworms. How is not banning Russian individuals from kernel development "supporting Russian aggression"? And apparently there is no way anybody would argue against that without being a Russian paid actor or a propaganda victim. I've been watching these so-called "real news" and they love carrying water for genocide right now. Their terrible propaganda -- our "real news".
And the rest is some rhetoric parlor trick and/or racist brainworms. How is not banning Russian individuals from kernel development “supporting Russian aggression”? And apparently there is no way anybody would argue against that without being a Russian paid actor or a propaganda victim. I’ve been watching these so-called “real news” and they love carrying water for genocide right now. Their terrible propaganda – our “real news”.
my maga loving relatives say the same thing torvalds said in his comments and now i'm realizing that the saying "don't meet your heros" also applies to their comments; im switching to bsd
Ok Linus but why not delist yourself then?
Linoox thinks that him being a Finnish is something to flex about. The Finns allied with the Nazis.
Finland was invaded by Russia before WWII, then participated in a campaign against Russia with the Axis powers and finally signed the Moscow Treaty with Russia and the UK and joined them against Germany.... I fear history is more complex than what may serve your simplistic view (I'd go to far as to say that, most probably, reality is too).
Also, if I may, that happened some 80 years ago... do you think current Finns should be ashamed of that when they were not even alive back then? Can you name a nation that didn't do anything shameful in the last century?
I fear history is more complex than what may serve your simplistic view
I choose to criticize him in the same shallow and ignorant way that he chose to be xenophobic towards Russians, because the next time, he'll be coming after the Chinese, and then the Indians (which I am) - this obnoxious, post-century barbaric Eurocentric brain-rot should've never been bought it to discourse, but he did.
I hope that no self-respecting person who have been expelled by him, work with this absolute prick of a person. Also, Linus: 'It's really hard to find maintainers...' Linus Torvalds ponders the future of Linux.
When open source is not THAT open
I wouldn't get involved in a legal battle myself
How is being born in Russia makes one complicit in "Russian aggression" wtf? I didn't have a fucking choice in this matter. Now I'm fucking worried that someone will have a bright idea of blocking Russians from using Linux, I might just kill myself at that point. Honestly, I'd rather die than lose my main and most beloved hobby.
Red Hat recently blocked my country from accessing Fedora (both site and repos), while I could use a VPN (which would fucking suck, I'd have to keep it on the entire time I'm upgrading) but fuck them, I moved to Arch.
but fuck them
Based. They're under Red Hat, well, basically under Israel.
If you want to try your hands on Guix, there are Chinese mirrors too - albeit a little on the slow end.
Germany literally started stealing random Russians' cars, Euros and Burgerrhoids are salty.
It’s ridiculous. Two years ago: Orchestras Pull Tchaikovsky From Concerts Over Russia's War on Ukraine
Wild, tchaikovsky was even a reactionary too lol.
I shouldn't be playing shostakovich so loud on piano my neighbors might inform on me 😂
Ikr
Born in the wrong country in the wrong time, that's on you.
Next time try being born in a NATO country.
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I think this is a shortsighted and extremely ill-informed decision.
The "compliance requirments" have still not been explained at all.
Why aren't Americans and israelis being removed from the maintainer list for their active part in a genocide?
But that is my opinion and is all I will say
Probably because there are no sanctions against them that his government is cracking down on? I don't think he wants to get involved in politics so much as stay out of prison.