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Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

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Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

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Post by g-b-r »

shmel wrote: post #15
talldayo wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions. They can still contribute to Linux - being removed as a maintainer doesn't mean you can't fork Linux. If they have downstream changes they want to contribute to everyone upstream, there is nothing here preventing them from doing it the same way everyone else does.

As if a normal person would bother lol. If I was discriminated this way just because of my country of birth, I'd stop engaging with such an organization at all.

It's because of their government, not of their country of birth

Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

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Post by markvdb »

llm_trw wrote: post #45
consumer451 wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He covers this in TFA: > And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

It'd be nice to list what those "various compliance requirements" are on a public open source project.

At least part of that might very well be illegal.

Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

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Post by t0bia_s »

llm_trw wrote: post #21
v1ne wrote: post #8

The article is a snapshot of the discussion that's still happening on the mailing list. Linus later responded with: >No, but I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers. >I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them.

>I'm also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them. Oh boy, everyone who disagrees with me works for the Kremlin.

Labeling shows lacks of argument.

Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

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Post by oneshtein »

galkk wrote: post #16

Ahh, old one "anyone who disagrees with me is a Russian state sponsored troll". If he had just written - compliance, we cannot work with sanctioned entities, that would be fine and understandable.

Russia spends hundreds of millions on propaganda (paid trolls), sabotage, and espionage. There is lot of cases for Article 4 of NATO already. It's better to say sorry than to risk millions of lives.

Re: Linus Torvalds comments on the Russian Linux maintainers being delisted

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Post by llm_trw »

markvdb wrote: post #54
llm_trw wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It'd be nice to list what those "various compliance requirements" are on a public open source project.

At least part of that might very well be illegal.

Then it sounds like public open source projects are now illegal in the US. We should act accordingly.
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