Weird, I didn’t even get that, but thanks for the archive link

What? I didn’t get a paywall so I assumed there wasn’t one sorry

https://lore.kernel.org/all/7ee74c1b5b589619a13c6318c9fbd0d6ac7c334a.camel@HansenPartnership.com/

Yes I would agree, but its unclear if this again means all Russians who are employed by any company. Because all Russian companies are sanctioned

You said you support the slaughter of innocent people. I’m not worried about spies, this is a public forum.

Your pro genocide stance has been noted.

And they’ve been banned because they keep saying the same stuff, being banned everywhere, then making new accounts

That said all they need to do is mandate use of AI during development

Wtf does that mean? Like what if you know exactly what you want to do? Do you have to ask GPT to review your code?

Do you have a source for that?

And you know this because it has been made clear throughout this thread,

As I said, everyone is basing this on one post on Mastadon, I have no clue where that person got that information, if he is trustworthy, if he speaks for the LF/Kernel team, or what.

Limiting the freedoms of innocent people who happen to live in a country doesn’t protect the rights of others.

No, this is on Linus and the Linux Foundation

This has nothing to do with xz

Individual people are not, no. Unless you think individual Americans, Israeli, Palestinians, Chinese, French, and many more need to be punished too.

Where does it say they’re FSB agents?

Yes, and I said I want open-source to be open. As in not just open-source, but also open to all. That is my personal moral value, and I advocate for that. What the OSI supports has nothing to do with that.

Russian people aren’t the Russian state

.ml is full of tankies. Also, nothing in open-source principles say that to my knowledge. Am I not allowed to have beliefs not explicitly defined by the OSI?

I actually just emailed RMS about this and I’m genuinely curious what he says. If anyone else is interested, I’ll ask if he’s fine with me sharing some of the response.

How many of these Russian maintainers were in Ukraine?

You have to be arguing in bad faith if you’re trying to say “citizens of nation shouldn’t be responsible for their nation”

I say that in good faith

it’s that their government can’t

Then take action against specific people if you see that happening.

Source that any of them were?