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Posted by koutsie 10/22/2024

Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status(lwn.net)
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silverliver 10/24/2024|
This was a very bad move by the Linux foundation. They should get new lawyers. Linux development should probably be moved outside of wartime/unstable jurisdictions like the US.
forinti 10/23/2024||
Are US corporations going to be forced to fire their Russian coders?
fred_is_fred 10/23/2024|
They should have already based on the sanctions two years ago, Belarus also.

Some examples:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/6/8/23159656/microsoft-russia-...

https://www.reuters.com/business/russia-shrugs-off-jobs-impa...

https://www.hpe.com/us/en/newsroom/statement/2022/06/hpe-ann...

https://newsroom.ibm.com/Update-on-IBMs-Business-Operations-...

maeil 10/24/2024||
"Coders in Russia" != "Russian coders".
comonoid 10/24/2024||
The new chapter in the McCarthyan witch hunt.
Timber-6539 10/23/2024||
My initial reaction reading the thread was just to shake my head. What's the point of open source?
Terr_ 10/24/2024||
My worry is less about big projects being inclusive and multinational, and more about whether there are clear guidelines and specific reasons given when people are kicked off or otherwise demoted.

Nobody likes being at the mercy of a system that feels capricious.

krick 10/23/2024||
I guess that's it. Open source is a fantasy that started coming to an end about 15 years ago. We lived in a fantasy world in 90s-00s, where there were no governments, no corporations and almost no people that make you shake your head. It was so easy (and of course silly, in the hindsight) to believe, that the internet is some another world, where earthly matters do not concern us. And everything was just about improving this world for ourselves. It's not like people often agree to work for free otherwise. Working for free is incompatible with capitalism, and we learn to believe that nothing else is truly possible in the real world. It's not like "open source" doesn't have a point in that imperfect world with governments, corporations and 8B people, that the internet seemed disconnected from for a while, it just doesn't have place. It simply almost doesn't happen there.

So, now the real world has slowly catched up to that fantasy world of ours. The winter has really come.

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phi-go 10/23/2024||
I thought I read that they had enough maintainers already and so don't need to write any guides on kernel development.
gg-plz 10/23/2024||
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