Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

• TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  It was known beforehand.

  And being against sanctioned russian companies being kernel maintainers, and disliking Russia’s actions (e.g. invasion, mass rape, genocide) isn’t xenophobic.

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  • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It was known beforehand.

    Source?

    I live in Poland…

    Also, disliking the Russian state is different from disliking Russian people

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    • TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      People were saying it in the comments before the recent press release even came out. Do you think they knew it by magic?

      Good thing Linus was never talking about Russian people in general then, isn’t it?

      Completely reasonable for Linus not to like such an aggressive, genocidal shithole of a country.

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      • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        People were saying it in the comments before the recent press release even came out. Do you think they knew it by magic?

        They saw people were banned to comply with the law and it was a list of just Russians. Huawei is a sanctioned company and none of their employees were banned.

        Good thing Linus was never talking about Russian people in general then, isn’t it?

        But he was talking about the specific people implying that they were supporting the Russian aggression, which to my knowledge they weren’t. The removal also said it can be reversed with “sufficient documentation” without any clarification on what that is. There were and are many opportunities to say “these people were removed because they worked for sanctioned companies” but that was not said.

        And btw, for being Polish it seems weird that you constantly post in US politics communities and never in any polish ones.

        To my knowledge there are no Polish communities on here. I do comment and post on r/Poland on Reddit.

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