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Re:Linus Torvalds Comments on the Russian Linux Maintainers ... by yehat on Thursday October 24, 2024 @01:57PM (#41937847)
Did he just now realized that history? For over 30 years accepting contributions from the "enemy"? Then when the history is employed, how about he as a Finn bans also Swedish contributors?
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Re:Linus Torvalds Comments on the Russian Linux Maintainers ... by mipsi on Thursday October 24, 2024 @02:33PM (#41938242)
Did you just realized that Torvald is not racist or anti-russian at all? He didn't block any russian maintainers until today (more than 2 years after russia turning genocidal imperial again).
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Re:Linus Torvalds Comments on the Russian Linux Maintainers ... by dragonwriter on Friday October 25, 2024 @12:00AM (#41942113)
The correlation of the historical anti-Finnish aggression with present aggression and direct new threats against Finland is fairly recent, and Linus isn't pointing to his awareness of the historical and present national context as a reason for the action but as a recent why it is silly to expect him to be lax about the legal advice that is the reason for the actions.
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