I for one am going through quite a culture shock. I always assumed the nature of FOSS software made it immune to be confined within the policies of nations; I guess if one day the government of USA starts to think that its a security concers for china to use and contribute to core opensource software created by its citizens or based in their boundaries, they might strongarm FOSS communities and projects to make their software exclude them in someway or worse declare GPL software a threat to national security.

  • @TommySoda
    5•26 days ago

    I’m out of the loop, what’s the recent Linux drama? If you don’t wanna type it out, you can point me in the right direction. Thanks. :)

    • pelya
      5•26 days ago

      Torvalds kicked out a bunch of Russia-based kernel maintainers.

      • @[email protected]English
        6•26 days ago

        For additional context, this was not a choice, but a requirement. The Linux Foundation is US based, and Torvalds is a US citizen. This was required due to current US sanctions against Russia, and was not just some sort of “Russia bad” thing from Torvalds that a lot of people are framing it as.

        • CALIGVLAEnglish
          3•26 days ago

          and was not just some sort of “Russia bad” thing from Torvalds

          The way he announced it and responded to the critics very much made it seem like that. He legitimately needs to shut the fuck up and get a PR person to talk in his stead.

        • @[email protected]
          1•26 days ago

          this was not a choice, but a requirement

          It has been framed as such, but no evidence has been given that it was a requirement