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this post was submitted on 23 Oct 2024
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Linus has never been the best communicator, but he usually speaks the truth. But this is just bonkers and wrong. Not everyone living in Russia has "ties with Russia" other than "they were born there". If this is about sanctions, he could have still just told them that. But instead he just disrespected contributors completely and then double down in it by being xenophobic.
Hate to break it to you, but if you live in Russia and can be useful to the government, they will make you useful. Unless you don't mind you, or your family suffering and dieing, there is no stopping that.
Russia has no law to protect its citizens, only to scare and oppress their citizens. If Russia wants you to do something, such as working in a backdoor in software, you have no choice. So it is a good choice to not leave that door wide open in my opinion.
Yup. If you don't want to "mysteriously fall from a window," you do what they say.
I agree 100% with Linus here