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Re:Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers by coldtea on Thursday October 24, 2024 @03:05AM (#41932774)
A global community project forced to comply with particular government edicts and competitions.

And the project leader happily doubling up in the nationalistic divide (while of course upholding double standards in this matter for other countries).

Re:Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers by robin_reala on Thursday October 24, 2024 @03:19AM (#41932882)
Russian developers are welcome to fork, but we’re past the point of community-projects-get-to-ignore-laws.
Re:Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers by coldtea on Thursday October 24, 2024 @03:23AM (#41932911)
Those laws are stupid and huge double standards in the first place (on top of being not effective and backfiring).

But even so, it's not just about Linus merely following the law (of course he'd have to, what can you do). The sad thing is cheerfully advocating for this too.

Re:Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers by snarbles on Thursday October 24, 2024 @11:36AM (#41936594)
Weird takes. These are circumstances of Russia's choosing.