Re: [PLUG] Torvalds boots Russian kernel maintainers

[Martin Cracauer via plug <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>]

Russians have not been banned from contributing code.  They can still
write kernel code and submit it.

It is just that they lost the permission to merge such changes in
specific subsystems.

In practice this step means almost nothing (purely from a development
standpoint). 

Martin

K.S. Bhaskar via plug wrote on Thu, Oct 24, 2024 at 01:14:18PM -0400: 
> 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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