Originally published at: Russian linux kernel maintainers removed due to sanctions - Boing Boing
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In Putin’s Russia, Linus Torvalds screws you!
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History lesson: don’t mess with the Finns.
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The bot farms as Russia’s injured voice while the real Russian people shrug on their day is wearing thin, to say the least.
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I hear that they are deadly.
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Off topic:
I remember that picture. My coworkers were sitting there on the receiving end. One of them ended up making a small poster of this and hanging it in his cubical.
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I know a lot of people in open source. And there is a certain type of person seen time and time again in our groups. They believe that everything should be nonpolitical. And we should blindly go forward pretending that nothing exists outside of the project. Well people exist, and you need people to make the project go. So it’s a little difficult to ignore world events when they are big enough.
I hope one day, Russians will be free to rejoin the rest of the world. But that’s not likely to happen if Putin or the person that succeeds him continues to escalate tensions with NATO and old Warsaw Pact nations.
We already played Cold War.
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I’ve met those types too, though their “nonpolitical” stance would quickly reveal itself to be some form of libertarian ideology (usually one that inflated the societal importance of white or model-minority male cis-het coders at the expense of everyone else).
In this case, as you imply, there’s also a real concern that goes beyond political disagreement into the realm of potential sabotage of the kernel on behalf of the Kremlin.
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May not be the Kremlin but attempted sabotage/backdoor has happened recently.
xz utils backdoor
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As a reviewer, I suspect it would be difficult for someone to get something through. And even if you eliminate every known Russia, we still face the issue of state actors that are not Russian or the Kremlin working through intermediaries.
Linus knows this, and it’s why we have been stepping up the quality of reviews even for innocuous seeming drivers and non-core parts of the kernel. Linus, for the most part, doesn’t want to deal with the legal complexities of working with teams in countries under sanctions.
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Off topic:
A Finnish friend told me the joke about Eino, that old guy who lives down the street. His friend bumped into him shortly after Eino got back from the war.
“Eino, what’s the first thing you did when you got back?”
“I made love to my wife; we’d missed each other so much.”
“That’s wonderful, Eino. And what’s the second thing you did?”
“Well, I took off my cross-country skis.”
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"Which sanctions? " seems like a valid question, especially when the folks added that “I’m under an NDA” and “legal council has advised me not to…” would be acceptable answers.
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