Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in

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Linus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps in
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They weren't kicked out, iirc. Their contributions just aren't automatically merged anymore

And they are all welcome back if they can satisfy the Linux Foundation that they're not affiliated with a sanctioned entity on the SDN list.

But that headline is provocative, it gets people going.

Does it? Russians can't do Russian stuff anymore isn't really controversial.

It is somewhat chucking the baby out with the bath water but I doubt anyone's losing sleep over it.

No, this is clearly evil and racist and true nazism, and we must reverse it even though it doesn't hurt anybody but the west, and therefore Russia actually wants it, but not really?

I'm sorry, the talking points are confusing here, can I have my lines again?

They were removed from the maintainer position of whatever they did. Bizarre enough.

For being employees of sanctioned companies...

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