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Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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"Compliance requirements"? The kernel's american now?! WTF?
Not short-sighted in the least...
Not a hypocrite move at all...
Are israeli developers blocked as well? How about all american developers considering how the US foreign policy keeps fucking everyone up all over the place in the name of liberty and freedom... of oil?
Maybe Russia should contribute something to the world so they can deny it when they want.
In the meantime, that terrorist state needs to immediately cease the murder of innocent Ukrainian people, return all of the land they have stolen, pay for the damage they have caused, and submit Putin to face trial for his war crimes.
Not disagreeing. How does that relate to kernel maintainers who just so happen to be born there?