FREE AS IN 
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.
Imagine if the rest of Europe was as revanchist about each other as Finland is to Russia
They fought one short border war in the lead up to WW2, but to hear the Finns talk about it they make it seem like Russia was personally massacring every single civilian they could for fun on their way to burn down Helsinki
Imagine if France still held out a deep mistrust and hatred of the Germans for two world wars, or the Belgians for the Franco-Flemish war. One war a century ago and Finland can't get the fuck over it
That's because Europeans actually love fascism, and will never forgive the USSR for saving them from it. In their eyes, the only thing Nazi Germany did wrong was do to Europe what Europe was doing to the rest of the world.
Ok maybe not all Europeans, but that ship sailed when the SPD sent the freikorps to kill Rosa and Karl.
There are lots of boomers that are also very mad about Finlandisation. In their view, the big bad Soviet Union unfairly leaned on smol bean Finland to take a diplomatically neutral position during the Cold War when they just wanted America-senpai to notice them
- "If the Russian maintainers meet the compliance requirements then they'll be back in"
- "What are the compliance requirements?"
- "My lawyers have told me not to say."
Good job Mr. Torvalds, you are the master of being subtle. Not even RMS would do this and that's the biggest F-you I can give Torvalds.actually what he said was "lawyers" told him not to say. Which I read as quite vague... just some lawyers. Could have been lawyers acting on anybody's behalf, not necessarily "his". Maybe he got some sort of demand letter from a right wing dark money law firm. There was such an organization making interventions into linux a while ago.
Oh fuck the lemmy.ml thread is full of scratched liberals screaming about Russia bad and Russians bad and this is good actually. .world and .shitworks continue to be a mistake.
There are two of them (the other). The one posted by a lemmygrad user has less librained comments (probably because the lib instances blocked lemmygrad a long time ago).
The funny linux man is a chud...it's like liberal me learning the truth about Elon Musk all over again.
they always say 'because of connections to Russia' and never 'because they were Russian'
I don't even get it, why have a smoke show when we all know exactly what you want to say
It' so liberals can lie to themselves easier when they do this shit.
What's his email? torvalds@osdl.org fails for me
I don't care if it's pointless I already wrote a rant out and I'm damn well sending it as soon as I find an address to use.
He uses torvalds@linux-foundation.org to commit to github
Cheers. Told him his rhetoric about russians all being from a troll farm is indistinguishable to IDF rhetoric that Palestinians are all Hamas, among other things I had a rant about.
Hexbear must never see my 3am writing angry emails level of unhinged
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but seriously it's mundane, mostly just trying to push the "i'm disappointed" buttons, calling him racist, comparing it to the IDF's rhetoric and appealing to ego by comparing the moment to the same turning point people had on musk
littered it with "mate" and "bruv" even though I rarely talk like that because he needs to know i'm authentically british or else he'll dismiss me as a russian too, innit
Yikes. I recommend reading this linked article too: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
This includes the maintainer of the Acer Aspire 1 EC driver, Cirrus Logic CLPS711X ARM architecture, Baikal-T1 PVT hardware monitor driver, Libata PATA drivers, libata SATA AHCI Synopsys DWC controller drivers, ASCOT2E media drivers, MIPS Baikal-T1 platform driver, NTB IDT driver, PPTP driver, Renesas R-Car SATA driver, Renesas Super-H Ethernet Driver, and the UFS file-system. Just the maintainer entries are being removed and not the actual drivers themselves.
Here's the actual patch and some ensuing discussion on the mailing list: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. - Greg Kroah-Hartman
I am surprised they are able to do this... is there not some sort of licensing requirement of attribution? I don't know the details of what "maintainer" status indicates. It sounds like they are being removed from the credits though. Or are they being removed from decision making power or ability to contribute going forward?
they are removed from their position of being publicly responsible for said drivers, which is separate from code attributions in the actual code files and the actual git commit log.
Ah thanks.
I wonder if they were polite enough to give the fired maintainers a private heads up before firing off the patch.
They probably wouldn't do that for security reasons. Chance of an unhappy person doing something.
jfc its sad to see that the nato brainworms have fully consumed Torvalds
Highly skilled coder being a reddit lib or crypto fascist should be assumed
My question is how much of this is needing to comply with sanctions and how much of this is Linus being a russophobic ass
Hes from finland so Im sure its at least 90% russophobia at minimum.
Moved to the US like 30 years ago so it's a 3x russophobia multiplier
Which makes me think he would have pulled the trigger earlier
