Comment on Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months agoIt 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.
aidan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Source?
I live in Poland…
Also, disliking the Russian state is different from disliking Russian people
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months 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.
aidan@lemmy.world 2 months ago
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.
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.
To my knowledge there are no Polish communities on here. I do comment and post on r/Poland on Reddit.
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nobody got banned. They were removed from their positions as maintainers, because they work for a sanctioned company.
Please stop being purposely misleading.
They can still contribute to their heart’s content. They just can’t submit patches with no oversight, because they are close to the Russian government, who, I don’t know if you’ve realised, has invaded their neighbour and is currently committing genocide.