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Phoronix: Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia
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this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2024
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Comments do drastically differ between .ml and .world. On .ml, you'll see more sympathy towards Russia and China.
But the issue on hand is way bigger than that. It's importance is not in Russia getting sanctioned somewhere else - it's in the destruction of openness and trust in the open-source community, which has far more reaching consequences. What has been done is pretty unprecedented - and dangerous.
And I'm surprised other Linux communities are silent on the matter.
@mindbleach @Allero From what I'm seeing from Lemmy, I would estimate the wackadoodle's to be much higher than 50%.