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A decent summary: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs TLDR: A recent Linux kern

A decent summary: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs TLDR: A recent Linux kernel patch removed a number of maintainers from the official MAINTAINERS file that recognizes all of the driver and subsystem maintainers, all of whom appear to be Russian or associated with Russia. And FWIW I don't see a problem in what Linus said just now. He says there have been people on the email threads "using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" [the MAINTAINERS file changes]", and that he won't be changing anything.

gigatexal 2y ago
Thank you for this. If there were bad actors then I fully support Linus being down the hammer because the kernel project is vital infrastructure. On the other hand i find open source projects like the Linux kernel and the work being done at CERN and the even the international space station — all this multinational collaboration I think is good for society and for peace. So I hope and pray they can figure it out. I’ve known a handful of Russians in my day and have worked with some Eastern European engineers from Ukraine and Russia and Estonia and every one of them has impressed me. I mean take the Clickhouse database for example that came out of Yandex. It’s awesome! Anyways I’m probably far too gullible and naive but that’s my hope is that while the nations might be at war the collective group of hackers that make things like Linux as awesome as it is keep it about the code. Except it’s always bad actors that screw everyone and everything be they spy agencies or just trolls.
gn4d 2y ago
>And FWIW I don't see a problem in what Linus said just now. Hmm... >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. So you think blatant racism against anyone who happened to be born in Russia is OK? What the fuck is wrong with you? How are comments like this appropriate from such a large open source project that has developers from all over the world working together?
gigatexal 2y ago
Maybe he has more context than he’s letting on or is allowed to share. I dunno. The whole thing is odd to me.

gigatexal 2y ago

Thank you for this. If there were bad actors then I fully support Linus being down the hammer because the kernel project is vital infrastructure. On the other hand i find open source projects like the Linux kernel and the work being done at CERN and the even the international space station — all this multinational collaboration I think is good for society and for peace. So I hope and pray they can figure it out. I’ve known a handful of Russians in my day and have worked with some Eastern European engineers from Ukraine and Russia and Estonia and every one of them has impressed me. I mean take the Clickhouse database for example that came out of Yandex. It’s awesome! Anyways I’m probably far too gullible and naive but that’s my hope is that while the nations might be at war the collective group of hackers that make things like Linux as awesome as it is keep it about the code. Except it’s always bad actors that screw everyone and everything be they spy agencies or just trolls.

gn4d 2y ago

>And FWIW I don't see a problem in what Linus said just now. Hmm... >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. So you think blatant racism against anyone who happened to be born in Russia is OK? What the fuck is wrong with you? How are comments like this appropriate from such a large open source project that has developers from all over the world working together?

gigatexal 2y ago

Maybe he has more context than he’s letting on or is allowed to share. I dunno. The whole thing is odd to me.