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Re: Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

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Post by ValdikSS »

seanhunter wrote: post #25

So here’s the thing. The author thinks that Greg K-H is under some sort of obligation to respond to the patch they submitted. But that’s just not how free software works. Greg K-H is a fully autonomous human being and he doesn’t work for the author of tfa. It sucks that we live in a world where nation states try to put exploits into the linux kernel and other foss projects but we very much do live in that world. It s…

Greg K-H is one of the original author of OHCI implementation, and the current USB subsystem maintainer. Another USB subsystem maintainer told me he won't merge the code without Greg's approval (he's OK with my code and reviewed it, as you can see in the mail list).

This is not the first case anyway.

>author doesn’t get to contribute to the Linux kernel because their government

I guess you're missing the point: nobody has asked me anything. The whole assumption that I'm Russian, from Russia, and a possibly designated, comes from using my .ru email.

I used to have .cn and .be domains as well during my life, should have been Chinese or Belgian to send kernel patches :D

Re: Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

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Post by Ekaros »

ghusto wrote: post #28
seanhunter wrote: post #25

So here’s the thing. The author thinks that Greg K-H is under some sort of obligation to respond to the patch they submitted. But that’s just not how free software works. Greg K-H is a fully autonomous human being and he doesn’t work for the author of tfa. It sucks that we live in a world where nation states try to put exploits into the linux kernel and other foss projects but we very much do live in that world. It s…

> So here’s the thing ... That was very much not the thing. He's raising an interesting point, if true. Namely that sanctioned countries could severely damage the progress of Linux by supplying good patches.

With AIs submit every possible reasonable patch alternative. Essentially locking these solutions out. Doesn't even matter if AI is allowed or not.

Re: Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

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Post by npodbielski »

Can't you change the domain? If you want to work within any project, enterprise or open source, you have to obey their rules. If you do not like to do that, you do not have to work with them.

> Think about that.

I thought and I do not think this article is anything else but a rant.

Re: Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

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Post by cmeacham98 »

ValdikSS wrote: post #41
seanhunter wrote: post #25

So here’s the thing. The author thinks that Greg K-H is under some sort of obligation to respond to the patch they submitted. But that’s just not how free software works. Greg K-H is a fully autonomous human being and he doesn’t work for the author of tfa. It sucks that we live in a world where nation states try to put exploits into the linux kernel and other foss projects but we very much do live in that world. It s…

Greg K-H is one of the original author of OHCI implementation, and the current USB subsystem maintainer. Another USB subsystem maintainer told me he won't merge the code without Greg's approval (he's OK with my code and reviewed it, as you can see in the mail list). This is not the first case anyway. >author doesn’t get to contribute to the Linux kernel because their government I guess you're missing the point: nobod…

But you are Russian, right? I obviously have no idea to the extent GregKH has verified this, but a trivial scan of your online presence revealed to me you at minimum speak Russian and there's decent evidence you live/lived in Russia.

Re: Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

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Post by Chu4eeno »

thewebguyd wrote: post #33

FTA: "The code can't be merged into Linux kernel unless the contributor can verify they're not working in a sanctioned company of said country (guilty until proven innocent)" That's explicitly not true, according to the Linux foundation. OFAC sanctions restrict providing a service, so here the violation would be two-way collaboration, not the receipt of information. The kernel could review & merge the patch without r…

> Logic is not subject to sanctions

... and vice versa.

Re: Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

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Post by Svoka »

indrora wrote: post #38
Svoka wrote: post #37

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A person is not responsible for the actions of their government. All governments wage war and cause suffering. I have many close friends who are Russian by nationality. Russian by crime of accident of birth. So many of my friends in this situation abhor the actions of their government. The Mentor stated it best. Phrack 7, 1986: "We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call…

What a pile of horse shit.

It is not “crime of birth” it is crime of choice of supporting war machine which invaded and occupied neighbour for hundreds of years; colonizing and exterminating peoples.

It is not russian ELECTED government raping thousands and killing tens of thousands. It is not govenment which launched over 60 000 drones and missiles in Ukrainian cities last month. It is russians, it is tens of millions in russian military, trice that supporting the military and each paying taxes being complicit.

They don't get to play victim while butchering people

P.S. before you claim 'not fair election' a quick reminder thet russians voted for this government each time since inception of russian federation in 1991, with the very clear track record of invading neighbouring countries with land grabs

Re: Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

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Post by Svoka »

ranger_danger wrote: post #39
egamirorrim wrote: post #31

Russians are responsible for their leaders

Nobody can know for certain ahead of time if someone they are voting for will turn authoritarian or not after they are in power.

You realize that russian govenment was overwhelmingly re-elected each time since inception of russian federation in 1991, and invaded neighbours regularly with land grabs since 94?

Re: Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code

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Post by RandomGerm4n »

Svoka wrote: post #37

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So does that mean my girlfriend is also to blame for the war just because she happened to be born in Russia? She’s against Putin herself, but there’s not much she can do about it because, as a trans woman, she’s persecuted by that shitty state simply for existing. If she protested, they’d kill her. Why should she now be barred from at least pursuing her hobby and submitting patches for software projects?
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