9mo ago

Harald Welte (co-creator netfilter/iptable and free software foundation awarded developer) published his open letter as public take about recently events in the Linux Kernel Developer Community around

laforge.gnumonks.org

On Linux MAINTAINERS file removal of Russian developers

TLDR;

It literally hurts me personally to see this happening. It's like a kick in the gut. I used to be proud about having had an involvement with the Linux kernel community in a previous life. This doesn't feel like the community I remember being part of.

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Kernel development should implement NoSTR to eliminate such situations.
The Ministry of Digital Development plans to create its own Linux community, which will unite developers from friendly countries who will be ready to work with Russia. This decision is a reaction to the exclusion of Russian developers from the global IT community.
Among the countries that could potentially become members of the new community is China, which has made more progress than others in developing operating systems.
Employees of the russian war machine, literally the most oppressed class of them all 😔
- Knee-jerk jingoism, just how the security state likes it.
  They’re just working class people trying to get by in a shitty bourgeois democracy, just like us. They have as much say in what the state does as we do, which is almost none.
  
  I feel bad about the Russian conscripts who are being thrown at the front line in meat wave attacks to soak up bullets. I also support the Ukrainians firing those bullets because I recognize that there is a damn war going on.
  I don't have to feel ethnic or any other kind of hatred for Russian Linux developers to recognize that this is war and hobbling Russia's technology sector is a necessary part of that. Every bit of lubricant for the Russian economy ultimately equates to more death in Ukraine.
  
  You can 100% choose not to work for a military contractor making weapons you know will be used against civilians by a genocidal government.
- I might upvote this if only I could decipher it.

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