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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 11 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 4 hours ago (3 children)

Because there are both US and EU laws preventing code from countries deemed a threat. Torvalds is paid by the Ameircan Linux Foundation, which has to work under US law and he himself is an EU citizen. Also a lot of other developers are from those countries and if they do not comply, they could get into some pretty bad legal trouble.

So it pretty much boils down to kick out the Russians or kick out all US and EU citizens and well we see Linus choice.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's the start, of course. One could always play good cop, bad cop: "I have to do this to comply with the law, sorry, there's nothing else I can do." What Linus has done here is play bad cop, bad cop: "the law says I have to obey sanctions, and by the way I support the sanctions and this move anyway."

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

He didn't banned the Russians when the war started, he could, and probably wanted, but didn't so what's your point?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

risc-v saw this coming a while ago and moved to Switzerland to avoid it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Switzerland is being routinely strong-armed these days.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 minutes ago (1 children)

😯🤔 maybe I should look that up, where exactly 😂would be fun to work on RISC-V

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 1 points 2 minutes ago

You can work on RISC-V wherever you are, just post your patches publicly so anyone can get them, regardless of their jurisdiction.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

It's not that hard of a choice either ofc, given one is essentially required.