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A comment on Linus Torvalds Comments on the Russian Linux Maintainers Being Banished. Parent comment

Re:Linus Torvalds Comments on the Russian Linux Maintainers ... by talldayo on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @02:54PM (#41928197)
> I would be reluctant to punish them for Putin's crime and to deprive Linux of their contributions.

They can still contribute to Linux - being removed as a maintainer doesn't mean you can't fork Linux. If they have downstream changes they want to contribute to everyone upstream, there is nothing here preventing them from doing it the same way everyone else does.

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Re:Linus Torvalds Comments on the Russian Linux Maintainers ... by shmel on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @06:26PM (#41929828)
As if a normal person would bother lol. If I was discriminated this way just because of my country of birth, I'd stop engaging with such an organization at all.
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Re:Linus Torvalds Comments on the Russian Linux Maintainers ... by gtirloni on Wednesday October 23, 2024 @10:26PM (#41931325)
Most people working on the Linux kernel are being paid by their employers to do so. This creates roadblocks for those companies. The days of the kernel being developed by a majority of idealistic developers is long gone.
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Re:Linus Torvalds Comments on the Russian Linux Maintainers ... by g-b-r on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:52AM (#41932700)
It's because of their government, not of their country of birth
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