Russia doesn't have some kind of transcendental national character. There are very particular and specific holdovers from the USSR, but the Russian Federation should never be treated as a direct parallel to the USSR.
Yes, and if Russia is solely defined by the war in Ukraine to you, you don't even understand how their government works. It's pure jingoism. Are these people who decided they are Linux superfans the day that Russian maintainers were kicked out so comfortable with the idea that only Western governments should invest in open source technologies? This kind of thing should become a public utility.
Why should this be different than the US or EU funding open source, either directly or through universities, corporations, and NGOs that often intersect with the military "industrial" financial complex?
Try to explain why it's different rather than pointing to their nationality and going "well, see???"
Yeah this is called blowback, like with the chip sanctions, like with industrial and natural resource sanctions. Trying to besiege economies that industrially dwarf the US will make R&D spending skyrocket in the targeted states, and the remaining irreplacable western monopolies will suffer for it, US NGO+academic+corporate domination of the open source scene is something that every gadget using or programming person should hope goes away.
Oh, was I the one who brought up the war in Ukraine over Linux? No, that was Reddit brigaders infecting every topic they mentally associate with it, as usual.
Sir, this is a Kernel. This is not the United Nations.
Oh first the Russian government is the one responsible for the fork itself, now suddenly they are shooting missiles at it in your mind. The liberal brainpan is a fascinating place.
That's what I'm saying, associating it with the SMO is just liberal Russiagate brainworms manifesting over every issue related to the country. I wasn't the one to bring it up.