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.
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?
No, this is clearly evil and racist and true nazism, and we must reverse it even though it doesn’t hurt anybody but the west, and therefore Russia actually wants it, but not really?
I’m sorry, the talking points are confusing here, can I have my lines again?
Doesn’t effect all Russians. Just 11 Russian maintainers that work for sanctioned Russian companies. Who can still contribute, they just can no longer make changes to the kernel with no approval/oversight.
They weren’t kicked out, iirc. Their contributions just aren’t automatically merged anymore
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.
But that headline is provocative, it gets people going.
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.
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.
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.
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?
No, this is clearly evil and racist and true nazism, and we must reverse it even though it doesn’t hurt anybody but the west, and therefore Russia actually wants it, but not really?
I’m sorry, the talking points are confusing here, can I have my lines again?
They were removed from the maintainer position of whatever they did. Bizarre enough.
For being employees of sanctioned companies…
Don’t work for war criminals 🤷
Unless they are Israeli or American.
Damn. Cuts deep
No, refer to my first comment you dipshit.
I might have interpreted your first comment wrong. But I did not read the booted maintainers directly worked for their government.
Because they did not.
Did you watch the “collateral damage” video? Just wondering.
Not all Russians are war criminals. Neither are all US citizens.
Doesn’t effect all Russians. Just 11 Russian maintainers that work for sanctioned Russian companies. Who can still contribute, they just can no longer make changes to the kernel with no approval/oversight.
All this noise because 11 drunk fuckers won’t find a job at a company that doesn’t mainline killing civilians.
What a weak reason to be upset.