Submitted 2 months ago by endofline@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Ec5jrpLVk
Biden’s Executive Order 14071, forbids Russians from working with or using GPL’d software made in the USA. And that includes the Linux Kernel.
This is not because of an executive order from Biden. This is because of the murderous war perpetrated by the criminal Putin.
If the whole Linux project died out, it wouldn’t be on the top 10,000 important things that have been destroyed by Russia.
Let’s ban israeli contributors next, ya know, for coherence… oh, wait…
can we not link to this prolific dickhead
If hes not on a paylist for state sponsored propaganda he should be. That was insufferable reporting on the level Id expect from fox news.
Putting aside personal feelings about this move- considering the current situation in Russia… this move may well actually protect some developers lives. There are people taking long walks off of short balconies because they didn’t kiss the ring. If I was a developer in that country I’d personally be pretty stoked I was off the short list.
If I was a developer in that country
You’re not. They’re grown ups. If they thought it was ok to keep contributing who the fuck is anyone to tell them otherwise?
As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I’m Finnish. Did you think I’d be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it’s not just lack of real news, it’s lack of history knowledge too."
Fucking lol’d. 💀
Nice. Fuck Russia.
mox@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
For those who prefer news in a text forum to be in text format, here’s some detail, including quotes from Linus:
www.phoronix.com/…/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
Hahaha fucking Linus is a legend.
0x0@programming.dev 2 months ago
Also posted to lemmy.