• kbal@fedia.io
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    12 hours ago

    Hello Internet commenters. Please remember that there’s no rule that says you need to tell us all your gut reaction to this if you know absolutely nothing about the situation.

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      10 hours ago

      knowing nothing about the situation is indeed the problem. if only this process was more transparent…

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        8 hours ago

        Being Russian => banned from doing business with the rest of the world

        That’s pretty straight forward to me.

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          7 hours ago

          Western chauvinism:

          the imperial core == the rest of the world

          You may not have noticed that most of the world is ignoring the international rules-based order’s sanctions. And not only almost all of the Global South, which represents ~85% of the world’s people and the bulk of the world’s production* and natural resources. Even many Global North countries are skirting their own sanctions to trade with Russia.

          The Global North is largely sanctioning itself, and Europe is paying a very high price for it. In particular high energy prices, which is eroding their industrial base even more.


          *Since the Global North in its infinite wisdom de-industrialized itself.

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            7 hours ago

            The almost the entire world is against Russia. And I don’t see China coming to Russia’s aid any time soon.

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              You’re just making it worse 😂 You really have no idea what’s going on in the real world outside of the imperial core, and you’re really sure you do.

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                  Sure, but that vote hasn’t actually done anything, and countries continue to trade with Russia. And the Global South countries haven’t curtailed their relations with Russia one whit. In fact some are building even deeper ties with Russia. They’re building an alternative system to SWIFT, they’re trading in each others’ currencies to avoid the dollar, and they’re making plans for some kind of BANCOR-like currency. The BRICS summit is happening right now, hosted by Russia.

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      8 hours ago

      I have seen pictures of Linus Torvads so I feel that I am uniquely qualified to explain whats going on. Let me break it down for you.

      The Linux Kernel is meeting compliance requirements by removing Russian maintainers.

      Thank you all and have a good night.

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        The problem is they aren’t even saying what those requirements are even after numerous inquiries about it.

        Don’t you think its wrong to ban someone only because of their nationality? I mean for real man. Every country in the world has done some fucked up shit but open source software is supposed to go beyond politics and ideologies.

        They weren’t doing anything malicious it was wrong to remove them.