Russia Mulls Forking Linux in Response to Developer Exclusions

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Go for it. That's one of the benefits of being FOSS, and other countries have their own versions of Linux already (that meet whatever dumb authoritarian rules are required).

- Clearly best downstream of Fedora comrade. Complete with open source anti capitalist technology to save your eyes from ~~the truth~~ the totally inferior OS of the west.
- I'm pretty sure Android isn't North Korea.
  Although what do I know.

A national fork? In Russia?

Sometimes the jokes write themselves.

It would be "interesting" at best.

Ok, that was always allowed!

- Can I have the shittiest stock meme phrase you have?
  ...no that's too shitty.

Why not just use Red Star Linux? I thought Jong Un and Vlad were besties.

Well to be pedantic, Red Star is a custom DE on top of Linux, not a kernel

Okay then, that was always allowed

Yeah this is called blowback, like with the chip sanctions, like with industrial and natural resource sanctions. Trying to besiege economies that industrially dwarf the US will make R&D spending skyrocket in the targeted states, and the remaining irreplacable western monopolies will suffer for it, US NGO+academic+corporate domination of the open source scene is something that every gadget using or programming person should hope goes away.
- Lemmy.ml radiation is leaking again
- My god what an embarrassing take
- Wow sounds like great news for Russia and a huge win for them then, I'm sure their internet trolls are supporting this decision instead of crying about it all over the internet, right??
- I dunno about all that... but I guess it's a positive that you're at least acknowledging that this is about sanctions and not racism or some other stupid bullshit.
- Pick GDP, manufacturing output or whatever metric and look it up: Russia is not even close to the US. China is the one playing in the same league as the Americans.
  As for open source being dominated by the US, the stats for Linux development don't give that portrait at all.

regardless, a country should maintain their own fork regardless if its being used for government computers.

As lower income economies develop more tech there will be more public open source initiatives like in the EU, but with a decidedly different focus.

Oh man I fucking called this one, as soon as I read that article a few days ago saying that the Russian maintainers were removed from the kernel, I'm like man if Russia was smart right now they would do a country-funded version, this is completely legal as well under the licensing of the current kernel.

It will last a month before they realize it is really dumb
- Honestly I started writing a comment asking why it was dumb, and started writing points why it would be good, then came to the same conclusion that it was dumb. The amount of money they would have to put in to make it good is more than they can afford.
Yeah it was funny to see people taking a lone C++ developer more seriously than this.

In Russia, Linux forks you!

Only possible because its FOSS. Hopefully this shows more governments why FOSS is awesome.

This will only show the idiots over at Western governments that FOSS is hurr durr bad, lets Ruskies evade sanctions

I would be very surprised if such a fork would diverge from Linux. I would guess that this would be little more than a branch with (most likely) support for Russian hardware. Just my hunch.

A legitimate hard fork doesn't seem particularly smart to me, but what do I know...

It's not about a divergent featureset, it's about making sure Russian businesses can continue to legally use Linux if the US decides to make that the next step
"I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, Rus/GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Russian Federation plus GNU plus Linux minus Linus."