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Harald Welte (co-creator netfilter/iptable and free software foundation awarded developer) published his open letter as public take about recently events in the Linux Kernel Developer Community around (laforge.gnumonks.org)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It literally hurts me personally to see this happening. It's like a kick in the gut. I used to be proud about having had an involvement with the Linux kernel community in a previous life. This doesn't feel like the community I remember being part of.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I still maintain this is a pretty weak argument. And it does nothing to address the question of what do these devs contribute to instead because it's not likely their suddenly gonna become jobless and dependent on the state. These are highly skilled and motivated developers just based on what ive heard about getting contributions into the mainline kernel. I just hope they don't get recruited to write drone targetting systems because we've decided to ban them from contributing to a project everyone benefits from.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (5 children)

I'm not going to take that hill because the generals haven't proven to me that it's necessary to win the war.

This isn't an isolated thing. It's a small part of the biggest sanctions effort in history. Every single sanction, can be nit-picked in just the same way. There is very little in the way of technology that can't be dual purposed into warfare, and those that can't be are still relevant to the economic pressures being applied.

I have no idea why you are so sure that the development in question isn't already connected to military drones, but it's a really weird assumption. What exactly do you think is the number one priority for Russia right now in the area of technical development? What operating system do you think powers most drones, military or otherwise?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I can no longer sit back and allow Russian infiltration, Russian indoctrination, Russian subversion, and the international Russian conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago

You left out "Russian invasion, Russian ethnic cleansing, and Russian war crimes."

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