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

  1. It's definitely no longer "GNU/Linux" as the worst of Stallman's "The Right to Read" seems to be coming true in real time, and from inside the circus tent, too.
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  2.  @pluto8404  The fun part is that Russia has excellent relations with most of the World, only the US-controlled areas are all huffy right now.
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  3. Why would Russian devs leave Russia though? What about Chinese devs? Will they leave China?
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  4. I would be on That Country From West Asia for that xz show. The recent injection of explosive pagers into the you know what shows that they will expand major effort with no moral restraints. As for the kernel being a national security concern and Linux being criticial infrastructure, well that fight is ... not really winnable. "You can never really be sure."
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  5. Russia doesn't like turncoats but even so, that story had quite a few holes.
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  6. If it's that good, it will be guarded like Neuromancer in Gibson's eponymous novel. Peasants: Access Denied!
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  7. I don't see how such a restriction might be justified. BSD, MIT, ... anything goes if this goes.
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