Free as in... obeys US foreign policy

He's gonna ban american and "israeli" maintainers too then, I guess?

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.

Shame to see this shit from torvalds

I'd really like to see the criteria for delisting people, though. As Russia is not the only one waging wars, there are worse countries out there. I guess it all boils down to Linus being from Finland.

Man, I wish he'd leave the communication to someone else. He is so, so bad at it. And this isn't the first time

The way he attacks critics puts himself in a bad light. But much more importantly, I read this and am still unsure if he has administrative/legal reason, security reasons or political reasons...

If I'd work in Russian propaganda, I'd love this so much. Hope this will not cause disruption in the community.

the comments on the article started off pretty good but pretty quickly devolved into a cancerous combination of NAFO and Hasbara.

Banning Israeli contributers too?

so are we okay with banning development time donated to foss because of nationality?

are these people found to support heinous shit or is this just wartime shenanigans?

One of the worst news I've read lately.

Why aren't Israeli maintainers removed? Oh because linux is basically owned by IBM now.

The linux kernel isn't free anymore. It's open source, but not free.

Wow, some real clown behavior from Linus.

I was expecting an adequate response, but this... I'll just say I'm very disappointed.

Huh. Lot of people Russian' to conclusions in this thread.

Sorry.

fremdscham++ 😬

Hm i never coded a line in my life, but i always wondered so honest question to the experts here: is it realistic that someone codes security back doors so hidden in other bad or wrong documented code, that nobody recognizes it in OSS community? I mean code is getting more complicated and specialized, dont you need more and more human resources (more than one person and hopefully not all with a bad intention) to check over that code? If im correct you shouldnt let more code into your software than the community is able to check an validate several times... Doesnt mean it has to be russians that need to be excluded idk

The comments under the article are a special kind of braindead.