moe90@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months 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-square80fedilinkarrow-up1317arrow-down151
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minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down175·edit-22 months 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-up51arrow-down1·2 months agoAnd this is based on what
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down45·2 months agoThe fact that Russia does not remove maintainers for political reasons.
minus-squarexor@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·2 months agoIs this excluding the bit where they made criticising their war in Ukraine punishable by up to 15 years in prison?
minus-squarerhabarba@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down22·2 months 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-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8arrow-down3·2 months 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-down7·2 months agoWhich open source developer has been killed in Russia for being a Russian developer?
minus-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months 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-squarepartial_accumen@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up47arrow-down13·2 months 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-up53arrow-down1·2 months 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 months agoLinus Torvalds has been a US Citizen since 2010 and lives in Portland, Oregon
minus-squareYeetPics@mander.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down2·edit-22 months 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-squarefuckingkangaroos@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6arrow-down1·2 months agoDid you get your education… inside Putin’s butthole
minus-squarefuckingkangaroos@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoThanks, obviously people enjoyed it.
minus-squareravhall@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down5·2 months 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?
Removed by mod
The most normal Linux user showed up, I see.
According to governmental regulations, yes. Please read up and try again.
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.
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
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.
Did you get your education… inside Putin’s butthole
Classy comment.
Thanks, obviously people enjoyed it.
Well, most of the software is pirated, so free like theft not free like free.
Source?
The internet.