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Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in (www.tomshardware.com)

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (10 children)

Where are the tankie posts now?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is a theory that sanctions against a country with a tyrannical ruler hurt the common people more than the oligarchs / dictator. But eventually they do make life more difficult for that ruler

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

The common people are the ones who overthrow the dictator eventually

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago (6 children)

That happens relatively rarely. Remember the protests in recent years in Thailand, Hong Kong, Iran? They went exactly nowhere.

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[+] [email protected] -21 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

It's a shame they didn't consider moving the LF foundation to Europe or something. If the choice is kick out contributors to support sanctions or operate without political pressure, the second is far better.

I cannot stand Putin or Russia's action, but punishing individual contributors just trying to write code and build Linux isn't helpful.

Unless evidence is found of malicious commits, it is pretty harsh on those caught up with this.

Let's remember that many Russians will probably be locked up and/or killed for coming out against Putin. Punishing them achieves nothing.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They removed russian maintainers that are associated with sanctioned companies. Individual russian contributers were unaffected by this.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

boo you read the articles! how will we manufacture outrage now!?

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