Comments by "Guillaume" (@joseoncrack) on "Long Term Linux Maintainer Banned After Protesting Removal of Russian Programmers" video.

  1. He seems to have a very "US" view of FInland history as well. Just look it up. Finland hasn't had that much trouble with Russia in history, outside of the WW2 period, during which they first sided with Germany to fight the soviets, and much later on briefly fought Germany. So, that was a bit, uh, odd. After WWII, they essentially became neutral, like Switzerland. The rest is made-up fantasy. Their recent joining NATO is a very recent thing. As someone else pointed out though, Linus's father appears to be a long-time "activist", which most of us didn't know.
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  2. Yes of course. And the fact it happens now after 2 years of sanctions, this is also odd. I can't make sense of it other than Linus has politely been asked to... or "else".
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  3. DIdn't know.
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  4.  @anaccount7032  I didn't know that. That may explain his elevated "compliance" ever since.
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  5. They were already doing that when Rust got "approved" for incorporation into the Linux kernel. Sure, there has been a setback recently about it, but it's IMO a minor setback, and they are coming back with a passion.
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  6. As I explained in a previous comment, the Linux Foundation is headquartered in the USA and so they don't have a choice but strictly follow US sanctions. That's why the RISC-V foundation decided to move to Switzerland 5 years ago. They wanted a neutral ground, not to be bound by US politics. If the Linux foundation doesn't move out of the US (which I doubt they will, as they get a lot of funding from US companies), I'm pretty concerned the project may end up pretty badly. This may just be the beginning.
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  7. The Linux kernel can be forked as many times as we want. No problem with that. The issue is that everybody flocks to Linux because it has very large support, including support from commercial companies (even if it's a double-edged sword), which guarantees support for new hardware. So that everyone's kinda stuck. You can fork all you want, but you won't be able to get enough support and it will eventually become abandonware.
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  8. It won't happen. There are too many interests at stake. RISC-V did it 5 years ago, but I bet that if they didn't and considering how RISC-V has grown in importance now, they could not do it these days either. They went at the right time...
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  9. But that would mean moving all contributors outside of that area too. Because I can easily imagine laws that would conversely forbid people living in those countries from contributing to projects hosted in "non-compliant countries".... You see what I mean.
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  10. It's becoming pretty concerning.
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  11. That's very spot on.
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  12. Yes, ironically, their CoC bans any attack on devs due to political reasons.
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  13. Maybe it's finally time for a GNU/Minix OS, and Andrew will have won the argument! ;)
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  14. Yes, but ultimately this is money that compromises. The Linux Foundation gets a lot of money. Remove that income and the means for maintaining Linux properly would be extremely limited. Now, to be fair, when one looks at the foundation's expenses, only a small amount actually goes to the kernel development now. So... that point itself should already have been a wake-up call.
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  15. True. When I saw their financial report, I knew something wasn't right.
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  16.  @ShaferHart  Yes, but we never know the full story of anyone... As I mentioned, his father was actually a finnish "activist" that he likely got influences from. And then, there's the power of fame and money. The amount of money the Linux foundation gets every year is mind-blowing (and the Linux development actually only takes a tiny fraction of it). That inevitably corrupts the mind.
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  17. Exactly. There is clearly some missing information about this decision, and I bet Linus won't tell us.
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  18. I think it was already ongoing for a while. Linux never hard that many regressions since 6.10 and 6.11.
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  19.  @MartinWoad  What kind of signs?
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  20.  @sonphamthe2341  One in the US, the other in Canada. Looks like we're uh... scr*d. 😅
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  21.  @CommanderRiker0  But how did that happen?
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