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Like, is the reason for this just the fact that they’re Russian? If so, what exactly does this accomplish? Is it just
It accomplishes people moving out of Linux to open and anti-imperialist software.
Does anyone know of alternatives or if the people going out, and others, intend to fork it?
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Net/Free/OpenBSD are alternatives to Linux if that’s what you mean
I haven’t checked out the state of HURD in a while but possibly that as well
McCarthy would be proud to see his legacy alive and well.
I can’t say I am surprised, but a bit disappointed.
I saw that earlier and was going to post it here when I got back to my computer. Absolutely depressing. But if the comments at Phoronix were anything to go by, this isn’t going over well. Hopefully sanity will prevail.
it always gives me pause to see well known kernel maintainers take such seemingly knee jerk reactions.
when a someone like a script kiddie does it, it doesn’t matter; but I wonder when a kernel maintainer does it, i have to wonder why and i think i’m afraid to learn that the impetus and thought process for both are the same.
Something i have learned in life, much to my own dismay, is that a lot of people that are very smart, and very good at specific things are really insanely reactionary. I think it comes from them spending so much time on that one thing that they just kind of dont even put any brain power towards politics or the state of the world and just catch some CNN here and there and go ok ya thats 100% true time to get back to arguing about boot loaders or whatever.
Like i bet the people who made this decision are rn thinking to themselves “Wait im confused the news said Russia was bad and my close circle of lib friends thought this was a good idea why is everyone mad?”
when a someone like a script kiddie does it, it doesn’t matter; but I wonder when a kernel maintainer does it
