Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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  • @fireshell@lemmy.mlEnglish
    12•5 months ago

    Linus Torvalds Confirms Decision to Remove Maintainers from Russia

    You couldn’t come up with a more powerful spit in the direction of FOSS. And from Linus, who is now kind of showing f*ck to the entire community. Here you have freedom, openness and all that. Today they just wiped their ass with it, and by one of the founders.

    This is the moment when the split politics, dirty ones from all sides, have penetrated into the very heart of OpenSource - into the Linux kernel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YozYt8l-g

    • @BCsven@lemmy.ca
      2•5 months ago

      Software still has to follow legal rules, like when some distros removed stuff to be ITAR /EAR compliant for shipping across borders

      Nothing is stopping Russia from taking the Open Source kernel and developing it themselves