greg k-h is a piece of shit, you should email him and tell him about it https://
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greg k-h is a piece of shit, you should email him and tell him about it https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh/
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@[email protected] what in the fuck is going on here? "regulations"? ... which ones? What the hell. Just... removing a ton of people with Russian-sounding names??
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@aud correct! see the response by Linus below, which is just as bad
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Asta [AMP]replied to ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ last edited by [email protected]
@[email protected] Yeah! That one... well, I'm never surprised by the tone Linus might take for any particular issue, but they make it sound like there's some sort of state compelled reason without actually giving reference to anything specific.
Like... aren't most sanctions pretty public? Also, are these people actually in Russia? And even if they are, what specific sanction requires erasing someone's contributions just because they're in a "hostile" country??
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Masanori Ogino 𓀁replied to ✧✦✶✷Catherine✷✶✦✧ last edited by
@whitequark Yeah but if this is in fact a compliance matter, ex. the Wassenaar Arrangement, we may need to reconsider where servers storing FOSS repositories should be placed. Just like OpenBSD who chose Canada because of treatment of cryptographic software export law.
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ティージェーグレェreplied to Masanori Ogino 𓀁 last edited by [email protected]AFAIK, OpenBSD "chose" Canada, because Theo de Raadt already lived there?
Theo was born in South Africa, but his family moved to Canada in the 1970s (also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt#Early_life).
It was more of a "happy accident" that Canada was not the USA with its at the time, especially onerous cryptographic export restrictions.
Relatedly, OpenSSH development benefited from individual contributors such as Niels Provos, who was also not an American citizen, but a grad student at the University of Michigan, being in close enough geographic proximity to Canada that he was able to drive the (relatively) short distance North across the US/Canadian boarder to contribute to OpenSSH (as mentioned here: https://www.openssh.com/history.html). Whereas early American OpenSSH contributors (e.g. Dug Song) were relegated to only touching pieces of code that had no direct cryptographic ramifications.
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