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So, what, the espionage concern is that a person who is listed as a contact might read emails on LKML.org? The only possible justification for this is the one
by whatshisface 2y ago
So, what, the espionage concern is that a person who is listed as a contact might read emails on LKML.org?
The only possible justification for this is the one being offered, that some lawyers do not believe it is safe for Linus to head a project with ties that could be made real to a jury between its leaders and sanctioned entities.
Considering the fact that individual people need to stay out of court as badly as they need to avoid being convicted this is not such a difficult decision to empathize with, but it is being conducted in a typical Kernel fashion, with personal views being injected at all the worst moments and contributors leaving who would not have had any quarrels if they had not been fabricated.
- Arnt 2y agoWhat espionage concern? Has anyone involved said there is one?
- whatshisface 2y agoYes, and I quoted the comment I had replied to. It sounds like we agree except for misunderstanding.
- oneshtein 2y agoThey still able to read LKML, so it's not, but they no longer ask questions like "Tell me details of your hardware because I'm official kernel maintainer while you is just engineerer, so I can easily harm you career if you refuse to cooperate.", then use this information to improve hardware used in Russian weapons.
- whatshisface 2y agoIf official kernel maintainers could harm careers over not telling them proprietary hardware details, NVIDIA would be selling hot dogs at a street corner.
- Arnt 2y agoIt doesn't matter. The sanctions say "don't cooperate with those companies", not "unless the cooperation is harmless" or "only according to your judgment" or anything like that.
- whatshisface 2y agoThat explains why it had to happen, but says little about what our opinion about it should be.
- Arnt 2y agoA rule that's simple enough to understand reasonably quickly is also simple enough to mishandle some corner case. In this case: Pity for the guys who build Putin's glide bombs.