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[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 47 points 1 month ago (5 children)

This is a shame, I always thought Linux was supposed to be an International collaboration, hate to see it caught up in this bullshit political agenda.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I agree to this. I was literally just in the shower thinking how Linux, the space station, and the Olympics are the only times we as humans come together to collaborate

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 14 points 1 month ago

@secret300 The project to discover elements 119 and 120 which previously were a US/Russia collaboration also put on hold. All of humanity moves backwards when we fight, nothing is gained.

[–] JWBananas@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Banning CFCs went pretty well too

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[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

You know that Russia wasn't able to compete in the Olympics or Paralympics this year, right? The individual athletes weren't banned however, but they had to compete under a neutral banner and weren't in the parade of nations.

Edit: I should have added, was disgusted because Israel were allowed to compete. Huge double standard there.

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[–] Midnight@slrpnk.net 13 points 1 month ago (56 children)

Political agenda is a funny euphemism for imperialist invasion and genocide.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 month ago

this is the genocide you must be referring to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHWHqj8g7Bk

[–] 0x0@programming.dev 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gee i'm glad israeli maintainers are being blocked as well.

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[–] BobGnarley@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

I totally think them invading Ukraine is fucked up too but I also think the Israel situation is messed up too and would you be against someone maintaining code just because they are from Israel?

That would be wrong. Linux is supposed to be about more than political alignments its supposed to be a collaborative effort its always been about that.

This is wrong and its super wrong they don't tell anyone what compliance they are following or who issued it to them which is also supposed to be against what open source is about.

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 month ago

No it was code started by Linus that got huge.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (19 children)

"propaganda"? Oh. You mean like Russia started a full blown unprovoked war with a peaceful nation? That "propaganda"?

Sucks others got caught in the crosshairs, but that's just what happens when your authoritarian government launches unprovoked wars and gets sanctioned.

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[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

Does invading your neighbor count as international collaboration? Not that all Russian people can be held directly responsible for the actions of their government.

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 30 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@theunknownmuncher The US has been involved in probably 300 regime changes throughout the world, has invaded many countries, including those that we were not affiliated with. Russia invades a neighboring country when we install a leader that is going to allow us to put missiles on their border. I really hate to see political hegemony get in the way of a good collaborative effort, we all suffer for it if we allow this.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago (27 children)

The US has been involved in probably 300 regime changes throughout the world, has invaded many countries, including those that we were not affiliated with.

Absolutely fair point. I agree with you on this portion of your comment.

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[–] bunitor@lemmy.eco.br 19 points 1 month ago (6 children)

there is simply no meaningful response to this

no matter whether you think russia is justified in invading ukraine or not, if russians get banned from the kernel bc russia invaded ukraine, yankees have to get the boot as well

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[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (9 children)

You do realize that the US has invaded far more countries than Russia has, do burgerlanders have no self awareness at all?

[–] nanook@friendica.eskimo.com 17 points 1 month ago

@yogthos @theunknownmuncher I am in the US and I realize this. There was a funny meme a while back about look how aggressive Russia is, they put their country all around our military bases. Unfortunately there is a lot of truth in that. What other country has military bases throughout the world?

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[–] communism@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

Aside from the fact that it's pretty insane to suggest to kick someone off a project for no reason other than their nationality (the article doesn't say any of these maintainers supported the invasion or had any ties with the government), even if these people actively supported the government, as far as kernel development is concerned... I don't really care? If their contributions are good then I want their patches to be merged. Tor was made by the US government, which I in no way condone, but I still use Tor.

[–] lily33@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

I'm sure removing these maintainers would be of great help to the Ukrainian war effort...

More seriously: We need to help Ukraine more. But this doesn't do that. It just hurts a bunch of people (both the maintainers, and the people using their code) for no benefit whatsoever.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 month ago

The biggest help the west could've done for Ukraine was to fuck off when the Istanbul negotiations were happening two months into the war.

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