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[-] IcyToes@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

It's a shame they didn't consider moving the LF foundation to Europe or something. If the choice is kick out contributors to support sanctions or operate without political pressure, the second is far better.

I cannot stand Putin or Russia's action, but punishing individual contributors just trying to write code and build Linux isn't helpful.

Unless evidence is found of malicious commits, it is pretty harsh on those caught up with this.

Let's remember that many Russians will probably be locked up and/or killed for coming out against Putin. Punishing them achieves nothing.

[-] the_strange@feddit.org 77 points 8 months ago

They removed russian maintainers that are associated with sanctioned companies. Individual russian contributers were unaffected by this.

[-] anticurrent@sh.itjust.works 5 points 8 months ago

They removed russian maintainers that are associated with sanctioned companies

Your are voluntarily spreading fake news and you are getting upvoted for that !

They have removed every person they suspected to be russian or have a russian ".ru" domain name in their email from the maintainers list.

[-] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 11 points 8 months ago

Sorry bot, only those working for companies under sanction. And this doesn't mean they can't contribute, just that their contributions need to be approved by someone else.

But I'm pretty sure the Russian git repo will allow us based Microsoft employees be on the mantainers list... Right? Russia state is nothing if not honest, consistent and ~~imperi...~~ friendly with other nations

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