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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Also from seemingly reasonable commenters there's so often arguments around security coming up. I don't get how one can jump to that idea? This obviously has nothing to do with security, it's about sanction compliance. And yes, likely a pretty pointless sanction compliance in this instance, as the sanctioned entities don't have a direct benefit from having an employee name mentioned in the kernel. However that's not how sanctions work, both just because, and also intuitively it makes sense: Sanctions wouldn't be enforcable at scale if every single case would have to be judged on merit - it's hard enough to enforce them as is.

And btw I so hope most of the comments on here are Russian trolls, but I fear many are people that fully drunk the Russian trolls' cool-aid and are now fully brainwashed...

Are the Russian trolls in the room with you right now?

Please report those comments so we can remove them too plz.