OK, this is bs.
They’re not banning devs, they’re banning maintainers.
Russians can submit as many patches as they like for review, they just can’t sign off on their commits themselves.
Seems pretty fair to me.
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FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoI’m actually shocked by how people are acting about this.
You see, it’s actually a really bad thing to ban devs from an open source project based on nationality over all else. “Oh, but they are state actors!!!” How do you know? Because they are Russian?
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Aqarius@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’m actually shocked
I’m not. Ever since the war, every single closet xenophobe of the west has been taking full advantage of finally having an acceptable group of subhumans to hate. If any of this surprises you, you haven’t been paying attention.
GeneralInterest@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It seems they’re not being removed because they’re Russian, but instead because they work for specific companies who are subject to US sanctions:
Allero@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Exactly! Being Russian doesn’t mean having any political affiliation.
Moreover, even Russia the state is adopting Linux and is greatly disinterested in messing it up. If anything, this could really be the attack on Linux-reliant Russian infrastructure, but even then it most likely will be a reason for a fork, no more, no less.