It just keeps dying over and over again. Or maybe it has never been alive in the first place?
Wasn't it an undecillion actually? (20 × 10 ^ 36)
I assume it is real because I have seen this news float by in Russian media these days.
Apparently they have just been removed from the MAINTAINERS file for now but it is not yet known if this will have any implications for their ability to send patches for inclusion in the kernel. If the latter proves to be the case, some of the drivers might end up unmaintained until another person gains enough trust to become a maintainer. This will surely affect support for the Russian BAIKAL processors, for example.
Apparently the removed contributors can return only if they provide some sort of "documentation" (not specified which though). They can still work on the kernel, but now they are not able to directly merge changes into the codebase, they can only send patches which may or may not be accepted. Or they could organise and create an independent Linux kernel fork which they would have to keep up to date by merging code from the upstream.
This much I understood from the news and comments.
This is the list of contributors that got removed according to a popular russian Linux web community.
Marxism-Leninism-Greta Thunberg Thought occurs
Seriously though, it's amazing to see how tables have turned and the media that praised her now try to portray her as a menace.
9/11/2001
"What? The twin towers have already been destroyed? Is it November the 9th? Oh, it must be one of those pesky european time maschines that got month and day backwards."
Glory to EAM - EPON - ELAS and their anti-fascist struggle.
Is this a real thing?
Suddenly I need that to be a real fanfic.
At this point the PRC has existed for longer than the USSR.
ffmpeg -i main.c a.out