Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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  • merthyr1831@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Linus is an absolute cunt for not only following this gleefully but then attributing pushback to “russian trolls” and “state propaganda” fuck you man.

    These people weren’t the MIT pricks who inserted vulnerabilities into the kernel, they were contributors who did hard work and helped advance FREE software. Linus is now turning his back on the GPL and manning it clear that Linux can be controlled by the US state on a whim.

    • Chulk@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Yep, anyone who is celebrating this is shortsighted and letting their own nationalistic ideas and jingoism cloud their judgement.

  • Ferrous@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    Couldn’t think of a more lemmy thread topic than one involving both Russian geopolitics and linux.

    • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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      2 years ago

      Couldn’t think of a more lemmy thread topic than one involving both Russian geopolitics and linux.

      part of me is sad that there aren’t many .worlders defending blocking those evil tankies. lol

      • Carnage Sleuth@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        2 years ago

        Yes there are, I think you guys should block .ML and enjoy your botted shithole website. Better your feed be an obvious echo chamber full of hate.

        • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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          2 years ago

          you’re preaching to the choir here; my fault for not including the sarcasm/snark tag.

          • Carnage Sleuth@lemmy.mlEnglish
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            2 years ago

            Lmao sarcasm is indistinguishable from the full on brigading from the “help tankies are brigading us” instances going on in here to me 😅

            • eldavi@lemmy.ml
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              2 years ago

              friendly fire is common on the lemmyverse and i think it’s because of the reddit liberals; they’ve managed to get almost every single reddit refugee to self sort into a few instances to protect their delicate sensibilities so they’re incredibly well organized and funded, or they’re EXTREMELY dedicated individuals to the point of doing it full time for free.

  • fireshell@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 years ago

    it’s a pity that politics is penetrating more and more into open source and FOSS.

    recently support for Russian cloud providers was cut out of opentofu. https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/824

    now this. this is, of course, natural the core and many components of modern distributions have not been free in terms of decision-making for a long time and are under the influence of large companies, which in turn are under the influence of the USA.