Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
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Here is Linus’s comment

Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about. It’s entirely clear why the change was done, it’s not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to “grass root” it by Russian troll factories isn’t going to change anything. And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren’t troll farm accounts - the “various compliance requirements” are not just a US thing. If you haven’t heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by “news”, I don’t mean Russian state sponsored spam. As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too.

And about whether or not he is under an NDA

No, but I’m not a lawyer, so I’m not going to go into the details that I - and other maintainers - were told by lawyers. I’m also not going to start discussing legal issues with random internet people who I seriously suspect are paid actors and/or have been riled up by them

  • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    111·
    2 months ago

    So guess russians will have to maintain their own fork of the kernel, and do their stuff on it? 🤷 as I’ve understood, they are (mainly or wholly) driver maintainers for some russian hardware

    • JustMarkov@lemmy.mlEnglish
      81·
      2 months ago

      Probably. The Baikal project is interesting enough to me in terms of its architecture and it’s frustrating to see the maintainers of its drivers being delisted simply because of their nationality.