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

Sorry.

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

Banning Israeli contributers too?

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.

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?

As a finn, I understand that there are probably legal reasons for doing this.

I just wish they would be transparent and share those reasons with us. The Linux kernel is certainly not the only free software project that is impacted, if this comes straight from EU/US sanctions. Maintainers of other projects have a lot of interest in what is happening.

Transparency is also important because if EU/US policy/sanctions are causing issues for free software projects, then that discussion needs to be public, so that there is a chance to amend the policies if necessary.

Free as in... obeys US foreign policy

Everyone who disagrees with me is a paid russian troll of course. Nobody would oppose blacklisting people based on nothing but their nationality unless they were getting paid for it.

We're gonna start seeing large open source communities start to break into smaller ones because of sanctions from now aren't we?

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

Wow, some real clown behavior from Linus.

Some old folk are reminded of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_the_United_States

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

Is there a specific reason for this?

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.

Shame to see this shit from torvalds

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

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.

Shit like this is why I use the most generic yankee cowboy aliases online.

He alludes to sanctions being a factor but never clarifies on advice from his lawyers. ngl I don't like the look of it just from a transparency perspective.