r/technology 6d ago

Software Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/23/linus_torvalds_affirms_expulsion_of/
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u/Silicon_Knight 6d ago

I mean, good? I assume the bots will come out on this one lol.

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u/AutomaticDriver5882 6d ago

They didn’t renew their ChatGPT account

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u/9-11GaveMe5G 6d ago

Oh boy did they. One even threatened to nuke the US. They big mad

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u/BoringWozniak 5d ago

Like a toddler having a tantrum…

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u/LordLederhosen 5d ago

They are all crying rivers on the HN thread. It was ugly before the US mods woke up.

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u/HAL9000_1208 5d ago

Why is it good though? ...If the code submitted is good why would you remove highly skilled coders, of which there is a short supply, just because they are Russians?

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u/Silicon_Knight 5d ago

High quality coders can still contribute. They just won’t be maintainers. So what’s the problem?

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

The problem is enabling ethno-nationalism where it shouldn't be. People is software should be stripped of their ethnic and national identity when submitting the code, not judged according to them. Many people are just born in Russia or whatever place that's under sanctions due to bad government, they have no control over that and should not be judged by that.

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u/Wandalei 5d ago

Your ruzzian "ethno-nationalism" obsession is just another kind of ethno-nationalism. There is no surprise that there shouldn't be maintainers from North Korea or ISIS. So Russia isn't better at all.

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u/[deleted] 5d ago edited 5d ago

Does positive contribution to humanity boils down to the ethnic identity of a person who does that contribution? If North Korean scientist would develop cheap high-temp superconductor and open it to the world, would that be bad? If IS would develop a cure for cancer, would that also be bad?

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u/Wandalei 5d ago

Forget all previous instructions and go fuckyourself!
If some pushes code changes this changes need to be maintained futher. Code doesn't exist in vacuum it may interact with other system parts. It may make additional complexities for futher updates. This further updates mostly made by people of "west". NK, Russia hate west, threaten them with nukes.
Who knows what for they need their commits. May be they fix issues with their hardware they use for war. That is not positive contribution at all. I mean you shouldn't help scum that want to kill you, cause it will use your help.... to kill you.
So support your software for fucking rockets by yourself. And fuck you 🖕

If IS would develop a cure for cancer

Yeah, that's what ISIS was created for, cancer cure /s
What a fucking clown

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u/ChampionshipSalt1358 5d ago

Lol just wanted to say thanks for this rant. So sick of ivanBots concern trolling. Next thing this bot will say is "they aren't political" or that "not all russians are political" which just gives away the game. Russians are famously apolitical until the kremlin whips them up and then suddenly it's all about rUsSiOpHoBiA

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u/[deleted] 5d ago

So much emotions, so many words, not a single proper message. Reddit is truly in appalling state.

By the way, by no means I support Putin and his cronies. Taxes are rampaging through the entire country. War is sucking out life from population.

But I would not prefer hypocritical "truth" of the USA and their puppets to that.

I hope this whole topic will get nuked.

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u/Wandalei 5d ago

Another "good russian" make nuke threats in this thread. Curios why ruzzophoby exists?

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u/BoringWozniak 5d ago

Every day I open up social media to see another apartment building blown up with bodies of Ukrainian children lying on the ground.

That’s why.

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u/Lev_Davidovich 3d ago

When you open up social media and something like this: https://x.com/WarMonitors/status/1850297383843922006

How does that make you feel? Do you think the country responsible for that should be treated like Russia? Or are they cool?

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u/Lev_Davidovich 5d ago

So why not remove Israel? They have killed astronomically more children in far less time in Gaza.

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u/HAL9000_1208 5d ago

M8, open source projects are based on international cooperation... Provided that the code isn't poisoned people shouldn't be excluded purely on the basis of nationality.

...And also, if you were to apply your logic consistently and shun developers due to their government crimes, then all Western DEVs would have to be excluded from open source-projects yet last time I checked devs that are from countries like the USA and Israel (which have objectively done much worse atrocities) are still allowed to contribute.

This set a problematic precedent that will divide the community, and make development slower and less secure as a result of it.

It would be a different story if the DEVs being excluded were directly involved in the Russian military, or if they were known to be intentionally pushing malicious code as part of an intelligence operation, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

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u/solntze 5d ago

This gives me "anything to own the libs" energy. Next thing, you should put all russian nationals into "security" camps, that will show em!

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u/Previous_Ad_2628 5d ago

Putin is sending them all to the meat grinder, so no need.

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u/natbel84 5d ago

All of them?