• aidan@lemmy.world
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      4 days ago

      Nothing was or to my knowledge has yet been indicated that it is only sanctioned companies, or if it is to comply with the sanctioning of all of Russia, other than one post on Mastadon

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          4 days ago

          Yes, something that wasn’t published to my knowledge until after a xenophobic rant

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            3 days ago

            It was known beforehand.

            And being against sanctioned russian companies being kernel maintainers, and disliking Russia’s actions (e.g. invasion, mass rape, genocide) isn’t xenophobic.

            Absolutely based from Torvalds. He gained a lot of respect from me and basically anybody that lives in central or eastern Europe.

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              2 days ago

              It was known beforehand.

              Source?

              I live in Poland…

              Also, disliking the Russian state is different from disliking Russian people

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                2 days ago

                People were saying it in the comments before the recent press release even came out. Do you think they knew it by magic?

                Good thing Linus was never talking about Russian people in general then, isn’t it?

                Completely reasonable for Linus not to like such an aggressive, genocidal shithole of a country. And it’s also fair to not give sanctioned Russian companies a deep level of access to his kernel.

                And btw, for being Polish it seems weird that you constantly post in US politics communities and never in any polish ones.

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                  People were saying it in the comments before the recent press release even came out. Do you think they knew it by magic?

                  They saw people were banned to comply with the law and it was a list of just Russians. Huawei is a sanctioned company and none of their employees were banned.

                  Good thing Linus was never talking about Russian people in general then, isn’t it?

                  But he was talking about the specific people implying that they were supporting the Russian aggression, which to my knowledge they weren’t. The removal also said it can be reversed with “sufficient documentation” without any clarification on what that is. There were and are many opportunities to say “these people were removed because they worked for sanctioned companies” but that was not said.

                  And btw, for being Polish it seems weird that you constantly post in US politics communities and never in any polish ones.

                  To my knowledge there are no Polish communities on here. I do comment and post on r/Poland on Reddit.

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                    24 hours ago

                    Nobody got banned. They were removed from their positions as maintainers, because they work for a sanctioned company.

                    Please stop being purposely misleading.

                    They can still contribute to their heart’s content. They just can’t submit patches with no oversight, because they are close to the Russian government, who, I don’t know if you’ve realised, has invaded their neighbour and is currently committing genocide.