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

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Suomi @sopuli.xyz turdas @suppo.fi 3w ago

Linus Torvaldsin kommentti Linux-kernelin venäläismaintainereiden poistoa seuranneesta trollimyrskystä: "I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be *supporting* Russian aggression?"

www.phoronix.com /news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

Linux @programming.dev vividspecter @lemm.ee 3w ago

Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

www.phoronix.com /news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

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We're gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren't we?
- You don't need sanctions. I've seen you petty fucks fork projects over a font.
  
  They'll fight over fonts meanwhile WordPress is on fire and where are the forks?
  
  Or a name
- This sets such a bad precedent...
  
  The bad precedent was starting a war
  
  Yeah I'm sure the maintainers are in talks with Putin directly
  
  Arguably, ITAR set the precedent in the 1990's during the crypto wars. USians used to have to travel to Canada to work on cryptographic code in OpenBSD because their commits couldn't legally be exported.
- This article gives a good discussion about a potential coming East/West political split in the world of FOSS.
  
  https://thenewstack.io/avoiding-a-geopolitical-open-source-apocalypse/

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