Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted

Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

[juxuanu]

As gen z would say, big L.

[siyia]

Cannot believe Linus allows this to happen....

[peppercats]

this is what happens when you get old and don't get your T levels checked

[avis]

Inclusivity, they said.

Contributions based on merit, they said.

All empty words in the end.

What's the meaning of "open" in "open source"? Or it was never "open" to begin with?

[chuckula]

If Torvalds is worried about Russkie spies infiltrating the kernel, I guarantee you those spies don't call themselves Boris Putinov and use a .ru address.....

[pharmasolin]

LMAO based Linus.

[Unscript]

I usually agree with him, but that's wrong on many levels. Ironic that he mentions trolls to start with.

[avis]

If Torvalds is worried about Russkie spies infiltrating the kernel, I guarantee you those spies don't call themselves Boris Putinov and use a .ru address.....

Linus reports to IBM/RedHat and their requirements are now Linux/Linus requirements. As a result today we can officially stop calling the Linux kernel "open".

And a large part of the open stack as well, including g-libraries, gnome, wayland and everything hosted on freedesktop.org.

[You-]

If Torvalds is worried about Russkie spies infiltrating the kernel, I guarantee you those spies don't call themselves Boris Putinov and use a .ru address.....

It is more likely about compliance with sanctions than espionage.

But deleting names of contributers is strange so who knows for sure.