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Youtube - Bryan Lunduke - Sanctions Hit Linux Kernel, Russian Programmers Banned (www.youtube.com)
submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Biden's Executive Order 14071, forbids Russians from working with or using GPL'd software made in the USA. And that includes the Linux Kernel.

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[–] yggstyle 2 points 2 weeks ago

You are clearly missing the point of the statement.

If I, a developer, stepped away from a project because I wanted to protect myself: the bridge could be mended from my side regardless of if I was willing to do so (...why hello secret police!) The termination of the bridge from the opposite side means I have lost my strategic value.

As I implied: putting personal feelings aside here- this was a net positive for those in Russia presently given the political climate.