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tension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctions (lore.kernel.org)
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[–] KLISHDFSDF@lemmy.ml 53 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

Linus Torvalds has been sold out to big tech companies like Google and Microsoft. He himself is a billionaire and no longer writes any code.

I can't take that seriously

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 17 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah a dozen or so commits updating readme files isn't exactly compelling stuff. Any of us could do this in five minutes on GitHub.

[–] sudo@programming.dev 15 points 3 weeks ago

Still hosted on GitHub, a property of MicroSoft.

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

That's because it's pure bullshit. And this repo will be deleted or abandoned in a month.