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[–] kbal@fedia.io 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hello Internet commenters. Please remember that there's no rule that says you need to tell us all your gut reaction to this if you know absolutely nothing about the situation.

[–] Kajika@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

knowing nothing about the situation is indeed the problem. if only this process was more transparent...

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Being Russian => banned from doing business with the rest of the world

That's pretty straight forward to me.

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"Compliance requirements"? The kernel's american now?! WTF?

The commonality of all these maintainers being dropped? They appear to all be Russian or associated with Russia. Most of them with .ru email addresses.

Not short-sighted in the least...

Similarly, the driver code remains within the kernel -- including for Russian hardware such as around the Baikal CPUs from Russia's Baikal Electronics.

Not a hypocrite move at all...

Are israeli developers blocked as well? How about all american developers considering how the US foreign policy keeps fucking everyone up all over the place in the name of liberty and freedom... of oil?

[–] electricprism@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The kernel's american now?! WTF?

Now we see the intended outcome of the "Inclusively" movement of the past few years.

I can't wait to see this "Inclusively" extended to China, India, Brazil and others.

We'll truly be the most Inclusive ever!!! What a great thing!!!!!!!!!!

[–] griefstricken@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The open source / FOSS movement in China is pretty rad. I use a sweet all platform text editor maintained by Chinese devs only.

People should be more wary of the control universities, NGOs, finance through those, law enforcement infiltration etc from US, Euros, Japan, South Korea, Aus has over open source projects due to technology being such a high national security priority.

Guess we're just going to be racist and run with the misdirection of criticism of US laws on to foreign enemies. Just go with the flow, I guess.

If they really want reverse brain drain it isn't my problem, it's their long term problem. CERN is also making a dumb mistake, all universities are in on this, it's imperial chauvinism.

[–] TriflingToad@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I wanna skirt by all the political stuff and ask what that text editor is?

[–] griefstricken@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 years ago

Nope I'm keeping it