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      11 hours ago

      He followed legal advice from lawyers and removed some russians from being kernel maintainers to comply with sanctions.

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        He went beyond that. “As a Finn, do you really expect me to up in arms to support the Russians…”

        Bravo, slow-clap.

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        People are more mad about how he did it rather than just the action he took. If he just explained why without being a prick nobody would care.

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          “Without being a prick” Dawg being a prick is his primary way of communication, power to him

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            No, I also found the way he handled it really distasteful. Even before his response, just generally the way the whole thing was attempted under a veil wasn’t great. The actions taken should have been transparent from the start.

            I do agree that it shouldn’t be polluting this thread like this though.

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            What is the point of this comment? Linus was childish as hell in the email chain and started a bunch of drama for literally no reason. I’m not mad as much as I am embarrassed to be a part of the Linux community when things like this happen.

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          We have to face is Linus might be good intentionned but his years on the internet have made him an remorseless abrasive juvenile dickhead. I wish he’d lampshade it because most of the tine he comes off as just a nasty arogant goblin. It’s clear he feels permitted for his accomplishment and hard work to take his frustrations on others and it’s clear he knows it’s really not fucking helping but it seems he simply can’t help himself. Like being nice is a sign of weakness.

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          Yes, only those with ties to the war, e.g. people who work for companies that develop software used on Russian drones.

          But people are angry that this wasn’t explained from the beginning.

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            It’s companies that under sanctions, it’s not only drones, its banks that finance the war, and companies that are trying to censor the internet and destroy the privacy, that sort of things.

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          How would you even know what ties a person has when the problem is government level security. Besides, Russia doesn’t exactly work on government payrolls anyway, it’s more about working in subsidiary companies owned by the oligarchs who are able to skirt the law effectively becoming the government in the process. It’s totally foreign to Western style government, there is nothing like it in the world

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            It’s very simple. The US government maintains a list of sanctioned entities and companies. US citizens and businesses are not allowed to do business with these entities. Most of the removed maintainers either used their company email, or very publicly are employees of these sanctioned companies.

            There’s no investigation of connections or anything complicated going on here.

            Also, if you think corporations becoming effective government is some Russia specific thing, I have a bridge to sell you.

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      He took the authorization for a bunch of Russians from being able to keep working on the Linux stuff. I’m def not remembering everything and I’d suggest you searching any news about it, it’s an interesting read

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        From being able to work on Linux stuff without having their contributions reviewed by someone else.

        It’s an important distinction many seem to miss.