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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 323 points 3 weeks ago (26 children)

He didn't expel all Russians, just the ones working for sanctioned Russian companies.

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AnIv3IogdUsebImO6i

[–] polar@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago (17 children)

Good! So why the incendiary comments Linus made on Russians. It is so hard to say something like this: "I have to expel them from the project due to a US law forced us to do it. However, I had trust on them all these years and they contributed a lot to the project (that is why they were working here). Now, I am against the law because we should not discriminate people for the origin. Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it. Finally, this harms the entire Linux project because now makes it an "American"project rather than an global one. Sad times."

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

xz attack was an open source attack and it would be silly to assume that it was unique.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world -1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with xz

[–] TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I don't think you understood their point.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What did I miss?

[–] jas0n@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In response to:

Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it.

The xz attack was an intentional backdoor put into a project that was "OPEN and many eyes are on it." Also, it was discovered due to the way it was executing and not because someone found it in the source. The original assumption has been proven wrong.

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Oh, yep I didn't see that. Though definitely more eyes are on Linux than were on xz

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