moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoLinus Torvalds kicked the Russians out of Linux, now they're creating a sovereign Linux community in Russia — Ministry of Digital Development steps inwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square84fedilinkarrow-up1335arrow-down155
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minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down187·edit-23 days agoTo my complete lack of surprise, Russia is seems to be a freer country for free software developers than the United States.
minus-squareprotist@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up54arrow-down1·3 days agoAnd this is based on what
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down49·3 days agoThe fact that Russia does not remove maintainers for political reasons.
minus-squarexor@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·3 days agoIs this excluding the bit where they made criticising their war in Ukraine punishable by up to 15 years in prison?
minus-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·3 days agoWhy remove a maintainer when they fall out of the 14th floor of their penthouse after shooting themselves in the back of the head twice?
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down8·3 days agoWhich open source developer has been killed in Russia for being a Russian developer?
minus-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoI couldn’t tell you, not much real news escapes the iron curtain. Kinda like how not a lot of dissidents escape the iron curtain.
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down24·3 days ago dipstick The most normal Linux user showed up, I see. This wasn’t a governmental decision this was a single person making a decision. According to governmental regulations, yes. Please read up and try again.
minus-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up50arrow-down13·3 days ago To my complete lack of surprise, Russia is seems to be a freer country for free software developers than the United States. What does the United States have to do with this? Since when is Finland part of the United States? Linus Torvalds is Finnish.
minus-squarerc__buggy@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up55arrow-down1·3 days agoThe Linux Foundation is headquartered in San Francisco. It’s a US 501c non profit. Therefore, they must abide by US sanctions.
minus-squarekalleboo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoLinus Torvalds has been a US Citizen since 2010 and lives in Portland, Oregon
minus-squarefuckingkangaroos@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 days agoDid you get your education… inside Putin’s butthole
minus-squarefuckingkangaroos@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 days agoThanks, obviously people enjoyed it.
minus-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·edit-23 days agoFree to maintain a kernel that is their own and which does not belong to “ThE wEsT”. Free at last, free at last. Thank Putin Almighty we are free at last.
minus-squarepimento64@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up31arrow-down3·3 days agoRemind me again what Russia did with your country the instant it got the chance?
minus-squareravhall@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down5·3 days agoWell, most of the software is pirated, so free like theft not free like free.
To my complete lack of surprise, Russia
isseems to be a freer country for free software developers than the United States.And this is based on what
America bad
No.
The fact that Russia does not remove maintainers for political reasons.
Is this excluding the bit where they made criticising their war in Ukraine punishable by up to 15 years in prison?
Why remove a maintainer when they fall out of the 14th floor of their penthouse after shooting themselves in the back of the head twice?
Which open source developer has been killed in Russia for being a Russian developer?
I couldn’t tell you, not much real news escapes the iron curtain.
Kinda like how not a lot of dissidents escape the iron curtain.
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The most normal Linux user showed up, I see.
According to governmental regulations, yes. Please read up and try again.
What does the United States have to do with this? Since when is Finland part of the United States? Linus Torvalds is Finnish.
The Linux Foundation is headquartered in San Francisco. It’s a US 501c non profit. Therefore, they must abide by US sanctions.
Linus Torvalds has been a US Citizen since 2010 and lives in Portland, Oregon
Did you get your education… inside Putin’s butthole
Classy comment.
Thanks, obviously people enjoyed it.
Free to maintain a kernel that is their own and which does not belong to “ThE wEsT”.
Free at last, free at last. Thank Putin Almighty we are free at last.
Remind me again what Russia did with your country the instant it got the chance?
Well, most of the software is pirated, so free like theft not free like free.
Source?
The internet.
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