https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh/bunch of russian maintainers removed from linux, no reason other than "various compliance requirements", also got merged without comment or reviewlooks like the complete US corporate captur...

[chjara@akko.wtf]

https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh/
bunch of russian maintainers removed from linux, no reason other than "various compliance requirements", also got merged without comment or review
looks like the complete US corporate capture of linux is showing itself

[eri@mk.moth.zone]

@[email protected] it's not corporate, individuals have to follow the sanctions too

[chjara@akko.wtf]

@eri on random individuals contributing to a free software project?

[eri@mk.moth.zone]

@[email protected] fuck if i know maybe

[chjara@akko.wtf]

@eri as far as i know even the most drastic sanctions the US imposes do not apply to just, communication with non-designated citizens, which is what this is about
but i don't doubt this is redhat telling the core team to kick out anyone vaguely russian to cover their ass/western brainworms, seeing linus's response

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@chjara @eri Well https://social.kernel.org/objects/860ef93c-229b-4070-8ee6-cb80d1f51337 points at them being employed by russian military industrial complex, which you entirely could publicly justify.
But then seeing Linus response… the hell.

[tusooa@kazv.moe]

@lanodan @chjara @eri Still, there is a distinction between "we don't welcome people who do bad things" and "we don't welcome people who [insert some government] does not like, who also happen to do bad things."

[tusooa@kazv.moe]

@lanodan @chjara @eri

With regard to this, https://github.com/Cryolitia just told me that "only one of the removed people" can be verified to be employed by a company with connections to the Russian army, but all people with a .ru email are removed. Which leads to people thinking whether the admin of social.kernel.org is misinforming the public.

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@tusooa @chjara @eri Made me check and msu.ru is an university: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_State_University

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@tusooa @chjara @eri At least omp.ru and netup.ru are corporations so yeah they could be sanctioned.
Although netup.ru seems to be just a seller of set-top boxes, at least usually mil-tech usually boasts about it on their site.

[tusooa@kazv.moe]

@lanodan @chjara @eri mail.ru, which appeared multiple times in the patch, apparently is a generic mailing service.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@tusooa @chjara @eri @lanodan yeah mail.ru is huge its like gmail for a good chunk of the world. when I was in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan thats what everyone had as email addresses

[lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me]

@liaizon @tusooa @chjara @eri Huh didn't even expect it to be used outside of Russia.

[liaizon@social.wake.st]

@lanodan @chjara @tusooa @eri was mostly Vk and Yandex and OK everywhere when I was there. seemed almost more common then google services. Google maps didnt really work there too so less things to lock you into the google ecosystem. also I think all the phones people had came preinstalled with Yandex and and the like.