| Frank via plug on 24 Oct 2024 12:33:09 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Torvalds boots Russian kernel maintainers |
Torvalds said that he couldn't talk about it because of attorneys:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=wjw0i-95S_3Wgk+rGu0TUs8r1jVyBv0L8qfsz+TJR8XTQ@mail.gmail.com/
Some more clarification from another contributor:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Compliance-Requirements
It seems it's an issue related to government sanctions against
Russia.
This was done because Major Corporate Sponsors wanted it done. Torvalds is not able to completely ignore pressure from major partners/sponsors.
On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 13:14 K.S. Bhaskar via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
I thought one of the aspects of open source is that the code matters more than the coders. I would like to understand why the Russian coders were removed. If the concern was backdoors in their code, one would hope that any commits to the kernel are vetted by enough eyeballs. If the concern was about intellectual property in their code, there are safeguards against that. Or was it political? If that last, it doesn't make sense because good code is good code, and bad code is bad code, regardless of who writes the code.
Regards– Bhaskar
___________________________________________________________________________On Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 11:30 AM Frank via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org> wrote:
https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/
I don't think that Linux would have taken over the world like it did
without having a good leader like Torvalds steering the ship.
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