Here's the official statement via James Bottomley [LWN.net]

Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 24, 2024 17:57 UTC (Thu) by mikebenden (guest, #74702)
In reply to: Here's the official statement via James Bottomley by alexbk
Parent article: Several Russian developers lose kernel maintainership status

It's reassuring that they eventually ended up doing the right thing (unfortunately, after having exhausted plenty of other alternatives :) -- but better late than never...

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Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 24, 2024 18:15 UTC (Thu) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172) [Link] (4 responses)

It almost certainly is not fair to blame them, the sentence: "We finally got clearance to publish the actual advice", implies that somebody else was being difficult.

Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 24, 2024 20:11 UTC (Thu) by backdoordriver (guest, #172767) [Link] (2 responses)

Probably there's a lot of discussions related to the details of such sanctions to avoid to discuss the main aspect.

Cannot find other words different from "racism".

Racism coming back, from who declare to be the king of human rights.

I have some questions for you.
Why such guys cannot contribute in their hobby time ?
Do such guys decided to start the war ?
Is Linux a USA product or something where all able to contribute did ?
Should USA government rules over Linux ?
Will such racist sanctions change the war result ?

I am very sad for the direction the community staff is going.
But i am confident there are a lot of intelligent and nice guys still, so i stay in for now.

Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 24, 2024 20:24 UTC (Thu) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630) [Link]

Cannot find other words different from "racism".

Really? You are not trying very hard. The sanctions against Russia are in response to an unprovoked war of aggression against Ukraine. It has nothing to do with anyone's race.

As for your questions:

Why such guys cannot contribute in their hobby time ?

They can. But Linux Foundation can't have anything to do with people working for sanctioned entities.

Do such guys decided to start the war ?

Probably not. But again, the rules of the sanctions prohibit working with people who work for sanctioned entities. This may be an unfortunate bit of collateral damage, but such is life.

Is Linux a USA product or something where all able to contribute did ?

Linux is not an American product, but any organization operating in the United States, and any people living in the United States, have to comply with American law.

Should USA government rules over Linux ?

No. But it can enforce its own laws on people and organizations located in the United States.

Will such racist sanctions change the war result ?

That's a meaningless question because the sanctions are not "racist". They are designed to punish Russia for starting and engaging in an unprovoked war of aggression against its neighbor.

Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 24, 2024 21:20 UTC (Thu) by malmedal (subscriber, #56172) [Link]

> sanctions change the war result ?

Russia would have won already if the sanctions weren't in place.

They would have lost already if the sanctions were properly enforced.

For instance the Lancet is a fearsome weapon, but they can only build as many as they can smuggle in these:

https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-tx2

Just about the only significant weapons they can make on entirely on their own are things like artillery ammunition and BM-21 rockets, and
half of those are supplied by North Korea.

Here's the official statement via James Bottomley

Posted Oct 25, 2024 11:33 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

We still don't know who the someone else was, either. Lawyers really are such cowards. (I say this as someone related to multiple lawyers, who have in the past complained to me about how much their place of work *requires* them to appear to be cowardly slimeballs for the sake of limiting legal liability. This is no doubt the same sort of thing.)