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What did I miss?

Nothing was or to my knowledge has yet been indicated that it is only sanctioned companies, or if it is to comply with the sanctioning of all of Russia, other than one post on Mastadon

Don’t know, but if they want to avoid that backlash there’s literally 1 person they can remove to fix it.

Good idea, I expect you hold the same standard for all Americans, French, Israelis, Chinese, and Palestinians too

Or let me guess, Germans in 1945 didn’t deserve the cruelty they got from the red army either?

You're right, they didn't. Shockingly, being cruel to civilians and conscripts isn't cool. If "lashing out against oppressors" is okay then I'm sure you supported what happened in Rwanda? What about the Khmer Rouge killing foreigners?

I heard Russia is full of Nazis, and if that level of hearsay is fine for staging a multi year invasion and destroying a thousand years of history it’s just FINE for segregating bad-actors and persona non grata.

Linux maintainers aren't invading Ukraine

Limiting the freedoms of innocent people who happen to live in a country doesn't protect the rights of others.

No, this is on Linus and the Linux Foundation

This has nothing to do with xz

Individual people are not, no. Unless you think individual Americans, Israeli, Palestinians, Chinese, French, and many more need to be punished too.

Where does it say they're FSB agents?

From what I saw in the executive order it wasn't limited to just sanctioned companies. Linus and other maintainers haven't come out with which specific sanction they're talking about so its just speculation

I agree, but people aren't their government. Discriminating based on nationality is xenophobia.

What backlash do all Americans, all Palestinians, all Israelis, all Chinese, all French, and many more deserve?

Yes, and I said I want open-source to be open. As in not just open-source, but also open to all. That is my personal moral value, and I advocate for that. What the OSI supports has nothing to do with that.

Russian people aren't the Russian state

.ml is full of tankies. Also, nothing in open-source principles say that to my knowledge. Am I not allowed to have beliefs not explicitly defined by the OSI?

I actually just emailed RMS about this and I'm genuinely curious what he says. If anyone else is interested, I'll ask if he's fine with me sharing some of the response.

How many of these Russian maintainers were in Ukraine?

You have to be arguing in bad faith if you’re trying to say “citizens of nation shouldn’t be responsible for their nation”

I say that in good faith

it’s that their government can’t

Then take action against specific people if you see that happening.

Source that any of them were?

I've contributed to open-source projects for years. My account name is my real name. I'm not a bot. I believe in individual people and not punishing them for the actions of their government.