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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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[–] AmbiguousProps@lemmy.today 289 points 7 months ago (3 children)

They weren't kicked out, iirc. Their contributions just aren't automatically merged anymore

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 225 points 7 months ago

And they are all welcome back if they can satisfy the Linux Foundation that they're not affiliated with a sanctioned entity on the SDN list.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 119 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But that headline is provocative, it gets people going.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Does it? Russians can't do Russian stuff anymore isn't really controversial.

It is somewhat chucking the baby out with the bath water but I doubt anyone's losing sleep over it.

[–] dontgooglefinderscult 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Russian stuff is freely, selflessly, and openly contributing to the single most important piece of software in history?

Seems we should want to encourage Russian stuff and eliminate the country btry preventing them from doing that.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but they also might compromise it. It's a fairly high likelihood that they would wish to inflict damage on Western technology so doesn't seem like a particularly smart thing to do is to allow them to have continued access.

[–] dontgooglefinderscult 1 points 7 months ago

And if your mom had wheels she'd be the town bicycle. If we take wild hypotheticals like "devoted open source software engineer that has publicly support foss politics which transcends all imperialist regimes, American and Russian, throws away essentially their life's work and permanently ends their public life all to do something that would be reverted before it hits any actual deployment scenario" and fear monger over them we can make anything's of sound scary. We better kick out American priests from African countries since it's clear all Americans are pedophiles. We better kick out anyone associated with Volkswagen, just in case they do that thing again. We better make sure no Spanish ships reach the Americas, just in case. We better kick all Israels out of every single country, just to be sure.

Linux also objectively isn't western software. It mostly used by China and india both of whom have contributed massively to its code base. Are we going to treat foss contributers and maintainers from China differently?