FREE AS IN 
Compliance
COMPLY
The funny linux man is a chud…it’s like liberal me learning the truth about Elon Musk all over again.
Anyone surprised? he is a fin
- “If the Russian maintainers meet the compliance requirements then they’ll be back in”
- “What are the compliance requirements?”
- “My lawyers have told me not to say.”
Good job Mr. Torvalds, you are the master of being subtle. Not even RMS would do this and that’s the biggest F-you I can give Torvalds.actually what he said was “lawyers” told him not to say. Which I read as quite vague… just some lawyers. Could have been lawyers acting on anybody’s behalf, not necessarily “his”. Maybe he got some sort of demand letter from a right wing dark money law firm. There was such an organization making interventions into linux a while ago.
“Russian troll factories”
Linus, no!
It sounds to me like he may have been approached by somebody or gotten a legal notice and then enthusiastically complied with it. Either way not surprised to see Linus say dumb shit, he’s been doing it for decades.
The thorough dehumanization, conflating every single individual in other countries into a single enemy-image, is an obvious component of US preparation for a total global war. US war planners are spelling it out https://youtu.be/6vYV5kM1gyg?t=2213
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
I don’t think the US is interested in a more total global war than it’s already engaged in. Conflating all others into a single dehumanized enemy just means the US can kill whomever it likes whenever it likes, and that’s not really a new concept for the country.
What’s his email? [email protected] fails for me
I don’t care if it’s pointless I already wrote a rant out and I’m damn well sending it as soon as I find an address to use.
He uses [email protected] to commit to github
Cheers. Told him his rhetoric about russians all being from a troll farm is indistinguishable to IDF rhetoric that Palestinians are all Hamas, among other things I had a rant about.
Oh fuck the lemmy.ml thread is full of scratched liberals screaming about Russia bad and Russians bad and this is good actually. .world and .shitworks continue to be a mistake.
There are two of them (the other). The one posted by a lemmygrad user has less librained comments (probably because the lib instances blocked lemmygrad a long time ago).
Imperial Germany bailing out the Finnish white army was terrible
Yikes. I recommend reading this linked article too: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
This includes the maintainer of the Acer Aspire 1 EC driver, Cirrus Logic CLPS711X ARM architecture, Baikal-T1 PVT hardware monitor driver, Libata PATA drivers, libata SATA AHCI Synopsys DWC controller drivers, ASCOT2E media drivers, MIPS Baikal-T1 platform driver, NTB IDT driver, PPTP driver, Renesas R-Car SATA driver, Renesas Super-H Ethernet Driver, and the UFS file-system. Just the maintainer entries are being removed and not the actual drivers themselves.
Here’s the actual patch and some ensuing discussion on the mailing list: [PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements. - Greg Kroah-Hartman
I am surprised they are able to do this… is there not some sort of licensing requirement of attribution? I don’t know the details of what “maintainer” status indicates. It sounds like they are being removed from the credits though. Or are they being removed from decision making power or ability to contribute going forward?
they are removed from their position of being publicly responsible for said drivers, which is separate from code attributions in the actual code files and the actual git commit log.
Ah thanks.
I wonder if they were polite enough to give the fired maintainers a private heads up before firing off the patch.
They probably wouldn’t do that for security reasons. Chance of an unhappy person doing something.
I’ve hated Torvalds ever since I experienced Git. Now I feel vindicated
Mercurial fan?
I just remember getting impenetrable error messages. Git is so goddamn confusing
jfc its sad to see that the nato brainworms have fully consumed Torvalds
Highly skilled coder being a reddit lib or crypto fascist should be assumed
probably what’s going to finally get me to give a BSD a try. I don’t think something like this has happened before and I am not feeling so good about riding it out.
Same, just needed a push and this serves as it. Hopefully software compatibility is good.
For gaming, lolnope, your best bet is either a passthrough VM or a cloud gaming service.
For everything else, I wouldn’t call it at parity but it’s certainly good enough for a typical dev setup.
My question is how much of this is needing to comply with sanctions and how much of this is Linus being a russophobic ass
Hes from finland so Im sure its at least 90% russophobia at minimum.
Moved to the US like 30 years ago so it’s a 3x russophobia multiplier
Which makes me think he would have pulled the trigger earlier
