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The problem is that Russia has marked on fire in the brain of westerners the feeling that can't be trusted anymore with nothing remotely close to critical digit

The problem is that Russia has marked on fire in the brain of westerners the feeling that can't be trusted anymore with nothing remotely close to critical digital devices like the Linux kernel. This feeling will last for a lot of time. The bad behavior, countless sponsored sabotage attempts against the west and huge resources spent in the troll farms to attack victims on internet, had collapsed into this current zeitgeist of enough is enough. About the guy, I'm convinced that is just collateral damage of this situation, as many other (but I wouldn't want to be the unfortunate guy or girl with the job of stopping people with dubious goals to infiltrate in the kernel team, year after year). His letter talks about somebody extremely polite and intelligent in their discourse. Seems to have done a stellar job on the kernel also, but is just another Russian hit by Putins insanity. Thanks for your time and talent and good luck, man. You deserved better.

airhangerf15 2y ago
> The bad behavior, countless sponsored sabotage attempts against the west and huge resources spent in the troll farms to attack victims on internet, had collapsed into this current zeitgeist of enough is enough. This is the United States. This is China. This is Israel. This is the entirety of the EU. This is the Saudis. EVERY COUNTRY HAS AN INTERNET INTELLIGENCE UNIT! They are all constantly meddling in everyone else's affairs. There are ZERO GOOD ACTORS. If anything this shows that the Linux Kernel really isn't "open" anymore. It's dependent on all the corporate sponsorship by dozens of companies tied to big industry labor markets. Redhat/IBM, Intel and dozens of others have claws in a once open project. Now the Kernel itself cannot be a bastion of openness where people write software for software sake. The entirety of Open Source is getting weird, hostile and political. With the recent hit piece of RMS, I think it's very likely several industrial leaders want to gut the FSF and any other group that is successful at writing good open source software that doesn't adhere to the growing boot of CoCs.
- pvaldes 2y ago
  Find me a video of a relevant figure in the EU shouting that Moscow must be nuked. I could point to several videos of relevant politicians and popular TV people in Russia threatening with turning London or Paris into ashes. So nope, not everybody is behaving equal. Two countries in the list are simply living on another planet. Rushing to see who can violate more international laws in a year. One is Russia, and the other is Israel, currently attacking the blue helmets to add insult to injury. I want to believe that the other play under some rules at least.

airhangerf15 2y ago

> The bad behavior, countless sponsored sabotage attempts against the west and huge resources spent in the troll farms to attack victims on internet, had collapsed into this current zeitgeist of enough is enough. This is the United States. This is China. This is Israel. This is the entirety of the EU. This is the Saudis. EVERY COUNTRY HAS AN INTERNET INTELLIGENCE UNIT! They are all constantly meddling in everyone else's affairs. There are ZERO GOOD ACTORS. If anything this shows that the Linux Kernel really isn't "open" anymore. It's dependent on all the corporate sponsorship by dozens of companies tied to big industry labor markets. Redhat/IBM, Intel and dozens of others have claws in a once open project. Now the Kernel itself cannot be a bastion of openness where people write software for software sake. The entirety of Open Source is getting weird, hostile and political. With the recent hit piece of RMS, I think it's very likely several industrial leaders want to gut the FSF and any other group that is successful at writing good open source software that doesn't adhere to the growing boot of CoCs.

pvaldes 2y ago
Find me a video of a relevant figure in the EU shouting that Moscow must be nuked. I could point to several videos of relevant politicians and popular TV people in Russia threatening with turning London or Paris into ashes. So nope, not everybody is behaving equal. Two countries in the list are simply living on another planet. Rushing to see who can violate more international laws in a year. One is Russia, and the other is Israel, currently attacking the blue helmets to add insult to injury. I want to believe that the other play under some rules at least.