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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 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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