Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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  • x00z@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    7 days ago

    I think the Russians that would want to backdoor stuff would just use a name like John.

  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3720·
    6 days ago

    Linus is an absolute cunt for not only following this gleefully but then attributing pushback to “russian trolls” and “state propaganda” fuck you man.

    These people weren’t the MIT pricks who inserted vulnerabilities into the kernel, they were contributors who did hard work and helped advance FREE software. Linus is now turning his back on the GPL and manning it clear that Linux can be controlled by the US state on a whim.

    • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
      96·
      6 days ago

      He’s Finnish by heart even though he lives in the US. I think it is probably a pretty big worry for him that Russia might invade Finland.

      I doubt this is something that he would initiate but if there was any pressure from other parties (I’m sure there was) I don’t think he is going to fight it.

      • 0x0@programming.dev
        1·
        2 days ago

        Russia might invade Finland.

        Finland’s part or NATO now. Putin may be a lot of things, stupid ain’t one of them. Ironically, this kinda backfired on him but can’t say it was unexpected considering most scandinavians love the american dream.

      • Allero@lemmy.today
        113·
        6 days ago

        I understand that.

        But he also sits at the heart of the open-source community, and his actions might ripple through the entire sector. With this much influence, allowing your personal fears to chime in is unacceptable.

        Once we start fragmenting open-source the way we fragment everything else, we lose the very spirit of it and open doors to so much potential power abuse.

        Besides, I really don’t see how restricting Russian maintainers would prevent Russian military aggression. If something important there is powered by Linux, it can be forked and modified to serve a specific need. Not to mention Finland is now part of NATO.

      • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
        104·
        6 days ago

        he’s just an American nationalist at heart. his dad was a member of the Russian communist party and his biography seemed to make clear that rebelled from that.

        socially he’s not terrible but when the war drums come beating he’s stepping in line for the stars and stripes

        • vga@sopuli.xyz
          61·
          6 days ago

          socially he’s not terrible but when the war drums come beating he’s stepping in line for the stars and stripes

          Like pretty much every Finn would these days, really.

    • tekato@lemmy.world
      1317·
      7 days ago

      Actually insane lol. But you can’t expect much from anybody who willingly takes money from IBM.

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    311·
    7 days ago

    This is dumb. Corporate divestment, sure, of course, fuck their money and their power structures. But open-source developers are not generally gung-ho about the war effort… let alone propping up their local military-industrial complex.

    • LukácsFan1917@lemmy.mlEnglish
      144·
      6 days ago

      This is the only plan the west has to win the war. Keep fucking over random Russians in the hopes Putin somehow becomes politically vulnerable over this, despite opposition getting weaker than ever throughoit the war and with the onset of sanctions. Now we are asking random Linux contributors, please come back when you’ve overthrown your government for us.

      Russia is of course the only country that has ever invaded another country so it’s only fair.

      No matter how many vulnerabilities are introduced into software by western allied intelligence agencies, we should never be held accountable for dealing with them ourselves. After all Russians are uniquely responsible for their tyrannical government because of their Asiatic brainpans.

  • fireshell@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3923·
    6 days ago

    Linus Torvalds Confirms Decision to Remove Maintainers from Russia

    You couldn’t come up with a more powerful spit in the direction of FOSS. And from Linus, who is now kind of showing f*ck to the entire community. Here you have freedom, openness and all that. Today they just wiped their ass with it, and by one of the founders.

    This is the moment when the split politics, dirty ones from all sides, have penetrated into the very heart of OpenSource - into the Linux kernel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_YozYt8l-g

  • Agility0971@lemmy.world
    184·
    7 days ago

    This is such an odd thing to do… I really cannot see the benefits for the project doing this. Maybe those maintainers were payed for their work and sanctions prohibit paying them or something?

  • nentypaushessen@feddit.orgEnglish
    6·
    6 days ago

    For me as an old fart this all sounds like such a stupid thing… who cares if someone who volunteer to work for an software project is a Russian, German, Iranian or - God forbid - an Frenchman. My personal - and of course completely insignificant - opinion is that politics should stay out.

  • endofline@lemmy.caEnglish
    95·
    6 days ago

    Actually I’m interested how it looks legally ( it somebody cares about it at all ). Whether the Russian contributors could ask to revert their changes as they most likely never signed the contract to transfer their code copyrights. For sure it will have a big impact on foss because if you have at least one American and Russian contributors, you may get in the biggest shitshow. Additionally if I was considering now to become a contributors, I’d be wondering if it’s worthy at all to work for free and then to be banned no thanks for whole free work years

  • blob42@lemmy.ml
    94·
    7 days ago

    LMFO I was on the reddit thread reading this post and coudn’t believe my eyes reading the comments. We’re living truly revelation times. Like you said this is a long due wakeup call for the rest of the “uncivilized” world.

  • LukácsFan1917@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2723·
    7 days ago

    While this is completely appalling, I cannot say I am shocked considering what Linus posts on some platforms and in some conversations. Really not surprising.

    Don’t take this justification seriously for a second. This is the check coming due for a community with leadership still beholden to western political hegemony, the intellectual appratus that decides who gets educated and what is published, etc etc. Getting a bit offtopic. View this in the same context as CERN kicking out Russians. Mask is coming off of science, democracy, freedom of speech and all that nonsense made up to spruce up the myth of civilization versus barbarity.