Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

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Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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This is all hypothetical, they are calling everyone dismayed by this Russian bots, and it's clear this is happening in sync with US aggression against Chinese professors and tech workers in the west. Most of my comments here have been pretty independent of what you're saying anyways. The wider context which could even justify speculating about this where open source is beholden to western laws and corporate practices should be a wake up call to people.

This is all hypothetical

Yes, that is exactly my point: let's not get all worked up about something where we have almost zero facts. Although:

open source is beholden to western laws and corporate practices

is definitely the case for the Linux Foundation: it's beholden to US laws. And wake-up call or not, a foundation would always be incorporated somewhere, and beholden to the laws of that somewhere.

I think getting all worked up about it is probably the first step to getting more information out of them. ┻━┻︵ (°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻