Comment by BobGnarley@lemm.ee on Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

Dude, WHAT. This is totally against what Linux and Open source in general stand for.

I don’t support the thing that I’m sure was their reason for this but I definitely don’t support banning someone from contributing to an open system solely off nationality.

So what eventually only the “good guys” can contribute to and use open source software? Who exactly decides who the “good guys” are in this scenario? USA? China?

The implications of what this can cause in the future for potentially all of the open source community is absolutely sad. We should welcome all our fellow human beings to contributing to open source.

Reminds me of a comment the other day on a post about Ventoy. Whatever the situation there is, which definitely needs clarification still, the person was saying that you shouldn’t trust it at all because the maintainer is Chinese, even though he has emigrated away. Because the CCP will be able to leverage his family still there to force him to create a backdoor.

That’s just thinly veiled racism in my opinion.

That’s plain racism honestly.

I knew a (asian) guy who was working for a government contractor serving the US military. The racism is very serious to say the least. He got framed when something went down and was almost tried with treason. (that carries the death penalty) The authorities hit him with questions about his loyalty to the US for 5 hours even though he grew up in the US and so did his parents.

Just an fyi but blob already stands for binary large object

it’s straight up illegal for the Linux foundation to deal with Russians.

[Citation needed]

As I wrote: sanctions. That’s what compliance means.

I gotta say, that seems likely. Not sanctions in a direct way, but indirectly through funding or other assistance.

Exactly. But mods here are too butthurt to accept that and rather delete my comments, so they can live in their delusions - which was my point

…and we don’t know whether they’re the former or the latter, no? So maybe a little early to get outraged?

Considering the US foreign policy and the impact it has on the world, regardless of whether the white house is R or D, i propose to ban all american devs… preemptively, ya know?

I don’t see what this has to do with my comment. I see no indication that all Russians are blanket-banned.

You are casually declaring all Russians should be assumed to be state agents until proven otherwise, and therefore the negative reaction to this obvious betrayal of principles, not even for convenience but for hatred, is unjustified.

I am literally saying the opposite: I am saying that it’s not clear that this applies to all Russians, or just ones that are sanctioned.

@0x0 @Vincent Yea well that makes about as much sense as banning the Russians, maybe we can stop development of Linux altogether. I’m sure Gatis of Borg would approve.

Would you say that Linux contributors with ties to MIT and other US universities that get funding from the same organizations of the MIC and intelligence racket are suspect? No? Yeah just Russians. Cold War propaganda chugging little twerp

No, I’m saying that if the banned people are only banned because they’re associated with the Russian government (/employed by sanctioned companies), then I’m not going to get outraged over the kernel maintainers. I do not expect them to break the law just to die on this hill.

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.

Benefit of the Doubt…

Honestly I wish that was a principle that the internet embraced more. We’re so trigger-happy to be outraged.

No the contributors should not be considered guilty until proven innocent just to give Linus et al the benefit of the doubt fuckface!

Oh geez, this the third reply by the same account… Again, I’m just saying that we don’t know whether the contributors were assumed guilty, or if they have actual ties to sanctioned companies.

Yeah, being from Russia is a lot different from being associated with the Russian government.

Lies! You’re a communist! Russian troll!

/s for the obtuse

You need that reddit.world or shitty.twerks URL to really sell the bit and make the tone indicator necessary IMHO

@BobGnarley @kixik Yep this is definitely not a step forward.

As far as I can read from that, they’re still maintainers, just have had their credit removed from the contributors page, no?

Still a strange thing to do and I look forwards to an explanation.

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