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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
With what's been going on in the world and with Russia, it really doesn't. That's the thing.
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Is this being done as a sanction against Russia or because it is feared that the Russian government would get some rogue developers to submit code to the kernel that enables attacks? Individual Russian programmers are not responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, so I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions.
Specifically, the removed individuals work for Russian organizations that are sanctioned. So this isn't really about individual Russian programmers at all.
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I'm looking for an OS, Linux is not just a kernel anymore it seems, for this and other reasons, hint, Linux Foundation and their cooperate lords.
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Is this being done as a sanction against Russia or because it is feared that the Russian government would get some rogue developers to submit code to the kernel that enables attacks? Individual Russian programmers are not responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, so I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions.
> Individual Russian programmers are not responsible for the invasion of Ukraine, so I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions. True, but individual Russian programmers are not free of Putin's influence, and could be compelled to do undesirable things. The day after the invasion of Ukraine, my employer locked out all contractors we employed who resided in Russia…
If this was purely because of sanctions, this could have been handled much more gracefully. But it's clear from Linus' comments that he just doesn't respect these volunteers because they happen to be from a particular country. > I'm Finnish. ... Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too. If we're suddenly taking history as a criterion, half of the world should ban British develope…
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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.
There is no inherent issue with C's contributions coming in by way of B especially if B vetted and examined said contributions personally.
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.
Why bring corporate lingo into an open source project though