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Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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This is a shame, I always thought Linux was supposed to be an International collaboration, hate to see it caught up in this bullshit political agenda.
Does invading your neighbor count as international collaboration? Not that all Russian people can be held directly responsible for the actions of their government.
I'm sure removing these maintainers would be of great help to the Ukrainian war effort...
More seriously: We need to help Ukraine more. But this doesn't do that. It just hurts a bunch of people (both the maintainers, and the people using their code) for no benefit whatsoever.
The biggest help the west could've done for Ukraine was to fuck off when the Istanbul negotiations were happening two months into the war.