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Posted Oct 24, 2024 10:16 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)In reply to: Related links by paulj
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status
Look at Russian sanctions lists - they do sanction at least one of the companies you've named, if not both. The issue here is largely that there's a significant chunk of kernel maintainers in the USA who care about not going to US jail for breaching US sanctions, but there was no matching fear about breaching Russian sanctions.
And the difference comes down largely to where core people like Linus Torvalds and Greg Kroah-Hartman live and want to be able to live. If they were living in Russia, caring about Russian law, then we'd see a very different approach to their current approach (where they both live in the USA and care about US law as a result).