Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

As a finn, I understand that there are probably legal reasons for doing this.

I just wish they would be transparent and share those reasons with us. The Linux kernel is certainly not the only free software project that is impacted, if this comes straight from EU/US sanctions. Maintainers of other projects have a lot of interest in what is happening.

Transparency is also important because if EU/US policy/sanctions are causing issues for free software projects, then that discussion needs to be public, so that there is a chance to amend the policies if necessary.

Linus has never been the best communicator, but he usually speaks the truth. But this is just bonkers and wrong. Not everyone living in Russia has "ties with Russia" other than "they were born there". If this is about sanctions, he could have still just told them that. But instead he just disrespected contributors completely and then double down in it by being xenophobic.

Huh. Lot of people Russian' to conclusions in this thread.

Sorry.

We're gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren't we?

Free as in... obeys US foreign policy

Everyone who disagrees with me is a paid russian troll of course. Nobody would oppose blacklisting people based on nothing but their nationality unless they were getting paid for it.

Banning Israeli contributers too?

The comments under the article are a special kind of braindead.

so are we okay with banning development time donated to foss because of nationality?

are these people found to support heinous shit or is this just wartime shenanigans?

He's gonna ban american and "israeli" maintainers too then, I guess?

Shit like this is why I use the most generic yankee cowboy aliases online.

Shame to see this shit from torvalds

I'd really like to see the criteria for delisting people, though. As Russia is not the only one waging wars, there are worse countries out there. I guess it all boils down to Linus being from Finland.

He alludes to sanctions being a factor but never clarifies on advice from his lawyers. ngl I don't like the look of it just from a transparency perspective.

Man, I wish he'd leave the communication to someone else. He is so, so bad at it. And this isn't the first time

The way he attacks critics puts himself in a bad light. But much more importantly, I read this and am still unsure if he has administrative/legal reason, security reasons or political reasons...

If I'd work in Russian propaganda, I'd love this so much. Hope this will not cause disruption in the community.

I was expecting an adequate response, but this... I'll just say I'm very disappointed.

Some old folk are reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States

Hey - an explanation. Who'da'thunk it?

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements

One of the worst news I've read lately.

Why aren't Israeli maintainers removed? Oh because linux is basically owned by IBM now.

The linux kernel isn't free anymore. It's open source, but not free.

Lol, ml. users getting wild in the comments

"Have we become so fearful? Have we become so cowardly That we must extinguish a man because he carries the blood of a current enemy?"

• Picard, Star Trek TNG

Scratched liberals abound. It takes very liyyl3 for them to be racist and chauvinist.

Maybe they can contribute to RedStar instead. Is best os for great compute.

Based Linus as always

based.

I understand where this comes from, he is finnish but this is pretty unprofessional.

fremdscham++ 😬

Hm i never coded a line in my life, but i always wondered so honest question to the experts here: is it realistic that someone codes security back doors so hidden in other bad or wrong documented code, that nobody recognizes it in OSS community? I mean code is getting more complicated and specialized, dont you need more and more human resources (more than one person and hopefully not all with a bad intention) to check over that code? If im correct you shouldnt let more code into your software than the community is able to check an validate several times... Doesnt mean it has to be russians that need to be excluded idk