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Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted
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Is there a specific reason for this?
Nobody has stated any actual reason. Based on Linus' comments, Russophobia is the likely answer.
The security issue is very likely scenario. If you're in Russia, you can go to jail at any moment on totally bogus charges. It is very easy for FSB to pressure some random kernel maintainer into adding hard to detect backdoor into their code, it will be XZ situation all over again.
thank you... now this makes sense.
so presumably this applied to Russians nationals living within Russia.
If that's accurate, the measure is proper IMHO