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Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia (www.phoronix.com)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 hour ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

My first thought is that this was to make Linux palatable to western regulations, like how companies can't use Kaspersky anymore. Stupid if I'm right because it's not like the fsb is going to sneak spyware into Linux.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

They very well could. However, it also could come from some US intelligence agency as well.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 hours ago

I'm definitely all for Ukraine winning, but this is bullshit, basically the red scare all over again (but for tech).

[–] [email protected] -3 points 26 minutes ago

Good

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 hours ago

Gotta have them "various compliance requirements", man, gotta have'em. Don't ask me what they are, but damnit, gotta have'em.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Couldn't think of a more lemmy thread topic than one involving both Russian geopolitics and linux.

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