This makes Russia incentived to double down on on the war, though, as there is less and less room for normalization of relations.

Honestly nobody should ever really be shaming for forking. It is the basis of all open software and all successful software development in history. Linux itself is obviously just a fork of Minix with GNU. And it is the traditional means of open-source and forking with which communities can and should quickly move away from bullshit like this to prevent corporate/government monopolization of it.

Is it really a fork if all you do is take upstream and remove the blobs?

What code has this fork created that makes it novel? Have they tried to replace those blobs with open source drivers?

Is the open source movement even viable without highly skilled but underemployed Russian technical labor?

The West seems to be doing whatever it can to accelerate its decline.

American hard power is about to be hard countered, so America's massive amount of soft power could provide a nice floor to keep a comfortable position on the world stage after its coercion mechanisms are thwarted. But they keep trying to weaponize their best means of post-multipolar relevancy.

Using the Linux kernel to push their short term geopolitical objectives is about as large of an unforced error as can be made.

Having the most developed open source ecosystem gives the US & EU disproportionate influence over the direction of the technology sphere; an advantage adversaries are incentivized to avoid trying to circumvent because no one wants to waste time reinventing the wheel.

Yeah, it'll probably slow Russian technological development a little for awhile until non-Western ecosystems mature, but this will hurt the West far more in the long run than the relative edge they get over Russia.

Any countries not explicitly Western-aligned will see the writing on the wall and take steps to build homegrown alternatives that can't be used for leverage over them...and they can start just by forking the Western projects.

Russia, China, India, Brasil, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Africa, Latin America, and Southeast Asia will comprise a vast majority of software developers, and their projects will inevitably outpace their Western counterparts as more countries develop, especially if this trend of wielding FOSS as a geopolitical coercion tool continues.

What happens when China has a runaway technological edge and decides to take giant strides to build and migrate their products/systems to a homegrown kernel?...now 30%+ of global manufacturing is built without consideration for Linux compatibility and interop. Soon any software wishing to take advantage of top hardware begins to target this new kernel and Linux kernel support becomes an afterthought. Shortly after, new APIs and programming languages are built to target these platforms, with bad/no localization to Latin & Germanic languages, possibly even using hanzi or cyrillic instead of latin characters. Then you wind up a tech ecosystem where cultural factors disadvantage Westerners instead of the opposite in the current status quo.

Throwing away global leadership to take cheap shots at Russia.

Meanwhile, Russian devs & Russian companies will make sockpuppet personas and accounts, fork the kernel, and ignore licensing since they're gonna be blocked from Western markets regardless.

even North Korea uses its own Linux distro domestically

Russia also uses one in some portions of its state.

All Russians are Hamas energy.

you can tell he's bitter about his dad being in the russian communist party lmao

I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

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.

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.

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.

If the Russian and/or Chinese kernel maintainers decide to work on a sovereign kernel project, I'm definitely cloning their repo and will hopefully help with the project as long as the US Empire doesn't stop me. Because the US keeps ruining my career and technical libre hobbies, I hope to move to China at this point.

Ya rab I pray

Do you actually know who he is? I'm not even being funny with the .

He's always been like that

Yes he is, and always was. His 'techbro asshole' archetype was a point of immense pride among his devoted followers, it was most visible on slashdot and newsgroup discussions back in the late 90s to early 00s. My personal take is that he's an undiplomatic, impatient, total prick, always has been and still is, regardless of whatever personal redemption arc people claim he took on in recent years.

Now that I've pondered this a little bit more. I think the shocking thing won't be forks. There really are thousands of forks. But people will likely begin to coalesce around different upstreams in higher numbers than we've ever seen before.

By shine, you mean spend all the time kernel panicking and rebooting in drm-kmod bugs that try to emulate Linux syscalls incorrectly and fail