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The entirety of Torvalds' angry tantrum in response to the backlash, posted about 17 hours ago (emphases mine):
So, Russia taunts this bitter man in his dreams, it would seem. Russia in his laundry. Russia in his fucking corn flakes. Nanoscale Russian worker gnomes in his CPU changing the words of news articles he reads. It couldn't possibly be that fucktons of people out there see this political Western-influenced kernel clownshow for what it is, or that they might disagree with Western narrative on global issues. Russia Russia Russia! Dude sounds like the average reactionary USian did when China was at the forefront of COVID news.
In a follow-up he posted:
In asserting that his toys are his and nobody else is allowed to look at them, he sounds like someone who's been watching way too much Alex Jones.
All Russians are Hamas energy.
Also love that reactionary bit about being Finnish, and history. One of the users in the commit comments took issue with it too, maybe you saw this one already:
A few more good ones that resonate with me:
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Everyone who disagrees with me is hamas/russiantrollfarm/chinesebot/$$nexttargetparameter$$
Russia gave 60 bucks to Cambridge Analytica in 2016 and now expressing anything but absolute bloodlust for citizens of NATO adversary countries activates hundreds of Rachel Maddow sleeper agents accusing you of being a Selenium script.
I'm glad I'm not the only one considering the long term viability of Linux.
Even if you think this is good in the short term this is going to be escalated in the future. what about when (not if, when) other BRICS countries get added to the list?
Would you celebrate Brazil being banned from "American" technologies? India? what if a country in Europe turns on American geopolitics? What if (or, when) GPL software was leveraged against Italy to force them to restart weapons trading with Israel? Or leveraged against South Africa to drop (or neuter) its ICJ campaign?
The US is clearly making a stand that is untenable even if it is acceptable to you (hypothetical redditors/.world user) personally for this one moment.
you can tell he's bitter about his dad being in the russian communist party lmao
I take it, we are to interpret this as Torvalds supporting NATO aggression, given the fact that he didn't apply the same standards to people from the relevant countries.
Probably not even that.
Knowing software devs, most of those opposing are probably doing so out of the same anti-moderation "muh censorship" brainworms that surface every time a project tries to give some Nazi the boot or adds a code of conduct.
Libs being this overzealous convinced a good number of chuds to automatically come to Russia's defence out of pure contrarianism.
that's as painful to read now as it was the first time since they're exactly the same things my septuagenarian maga father says.
meeting torvalds and then reading this makes it clear that i should have gone w bsd instead of linux 25 years ago.