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Kernel contributor James Bottomley's response to the recent maintainers removal
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- simonmysun 2y agoI wonder if it was a good choice to let Linux be owned by a company governed by a non-neutral government who frequently imposes sanctions on other entities. And if someday people wish to transfer this to another country, will US government intervene?
- cma 2y agoWhy does the Treasury Department have say over a nonprofit company in this regard? I could see they could do export restrictions, but how do they have control over taking in patches without compensation?
- kdnsndndj 2y agoI remember the times when we were proud to print pgp code in a book to circumvent US export restrictions Simply bowing to a request (has there even been one?) of an overreaching government is not in the hacker spirit