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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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Greg puts in the article the way it is And if anyone thinks a Finn of all people would buy any BS or sad tears from their "annoying" neighbour (to put it mildly) you need to read up on some history Of course in the end it sucks for a lot of people that has nothing to do with it.

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

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post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

I mean, it's likely not just deflection/paranoia in his case.

It certanly looks like. This is, unfortunately, not the Linus i knew from lkml.

Anyway, it is a good alarm signal about open source (especially after npm and xz).

In the end we are all amunition. /s

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

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post #72

Greg puts in the article the way it is And if anyone thinks a Finn of all people would buy any BS or sad tears from their "annoying" neighbour (to put it mildly) you need to read up on some history Of course in the end it sucks for a lot of people that has nothing to do with it.

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> because there used to be Finnish people who believed in the Soviets

Yes those are called useful idiots

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

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post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yet you have no issues doing business with Saudi Arabia where they had ties with international Islamic terrorism... Or China, Venezuela (both left and right parties, at least from Spain)... End the stage performance, please. We all know it's all about money and power.

You have made a lot of assumptions my friend. I personally have issues with all authoritarian countries, including the ones you mentioned. > End the stage performance, please. We all know it's all about money and power. You are ridiculously incorrect. For me, it is about freedom, democracy, and the right to continue breathing. I currently live a few hundred km from the war in Europe. Russian state media threatens to…

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

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You're saying that everyone who has e-mail ending in “@yahoo.com” works at Yahoo. The rest of the post shows the same level of understanding of the world us.

Obviously you haven't thought that blocking participants for reasons you've mentioned should start with Linus Torvalds, currently a US citizen. Maybe later he can present some papers or something to guarantee that he's not involved...

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

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post #72

Greg puts in the article the way it is And if anyone thinks a Finn of all people would buy any BS or sad tears from their "annoying" neighbour (to put it mildly) you need to read up on some history Of course in the end it sucks for a lot of people that has nothing to do with it.

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The Finnish people today, have the highest percentage of people willing to fight to defend their country in the EU, it is reported to be 74%.

I think it is safe to assume that they are not worried about their Scandinavian neighbors invading.

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