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2024-10-30 Cyber

Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.

Text taken from a cnews.ru article

Commentary by Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin is in italics.
[ColonelCassad] Linus Torvalds Shows His Face - He Hates Russians and Supports Their Expulsion from Linux Developers

Linus Torvalds has shown his attitude towards Russians and Russian programmers, calling them "Russian trolls". The day before, 11 Russian specialists were expelled from the Linux developer community, and Torvalds fully supported this, stating that the decision will not be reversed.

Linux creator Linus Torvalds has openly stated that he fully supports the removal of Russians from work on the Linux kernel. The day before, as reported by CNews, 11 specialists with Russian roots were excommunicated from this work on the project. It was not Torvalds himself who did this, but one of the largest Linux maintainers, who replaced Torvalds six years ago as the head of the community.

Commenting on what happened, Torvalds, a native of Finland and a US citizen, did not mince words at all. He called the 11 Russians who can no longer work on Linux literally “lots of Russian trolls” and added that the decision to exclude them from the community will not be reversed.

Torvalds has previously made harsh statements about programmers from various countries, saying, for example, that they have “shit-for-brains” or scolding them for being too literate. But this is the first time in many years that Torvalds has openly stated his dislike for specialists from Russia.

To be fair, there are historical reasons some Finns loathe the land of the Rus.

WHAT TORVALDS SAID
The creator of Linux clearly and distinctly stated his position on both the Russian participants of the Linux community and how they were treated. “Okay, a bunch of Russian trolls are out. It is completely obvious why this change was made, and it will not be reversed,” he said.

But Torvalds did not stop there. "Using a few random anonymous accounts to try to 'plant' it via Russian troll factories won't do anything. And for the information of truly innocent bystanders who aren't troll factory accounts, these 'various compliance requirements' don't just apply to the US."

"Various compliance requirements" is the reason 11 Russians were suspended from working on Linux. The community's top brass hasn't said anything more specific yet.

Torvalds concluded his statement with the following comment: "I'm Finnish. You thought I would *support* Russian aggression? Apparently, it's not just the lack of real news, but also the lack of knowledge of history."

See?

In this case, it's completely unclear how Torvalds' nationality, world history, and the fact that he openly supports the removal of Russian citizens from the FOSS community who hold a mouse and keyboard, not a gun, are connected.

While opaque to the writer, it’s obviously clear to Mr. Torvalds. Perhaps the writer should exert himself to do a little research.

By the time the material was published, 11 Russians had been removed from working on Linux with Torvalds's not-so-tacit consent. But neither Linus himself nor his assistant Greg Kroah-Hartman, a US citizen and one of the key Linux developers who initiated the removal, said that this would be the limit. In other words, the likelihood that the persecution of Russian FOSS developers in the Linux community will continue is off the charts.

It is also important to understand that among these 11 people there are employees of large Russian IT companies. First and foremost, this includes the developer of the Aurora OS, Rostelecom-owned Open Mobile Platforms.

The list also includes employees of SberDevices, a company that produces smart gadgets for Sberbank, NetUp (provides solutions and services for communications providers), and Metrotek, a manufacturer of control and measuring devices, telecom equipment, and electronics. Along with them, the door was shown to an employee of Moscow State University.

When I read about this a couple of days ago, I smiled to myself, as I remembered the stories about the need to switch from the corrupt corporate Windows to the free and democratic Linux.

Here again, there is the problem of dependence on Western software and Western digital infrastructure. Which the West takes advantage of, using such dependencies where possible.

In the case of operating systems, this problem will be with us for a long time.

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