I for one am going through quite a culture shock. I always assumed the nature of FOSS software made it immune to be confined within the policies of nations; I guess if one day the government of USA starts to think that its a security concers for china to use and contribute to core opensource software created by its citizens or based in their boundaries, they might strongarm FOSS communities and projects to make their software exclude them in someway or worse declare GPL software a threat to national security.

  • wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    16 hours ago

    For additional context, this was not a choice, but a requirement. The Linux Foundation is US based, and Torvalds is a US citizen. This was required due to current US sanctions against Russia, and was not just some sort of “Russia bad” thing from Torvalds that a lot of people are framing it as.

    • CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
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      6 hours ago

      this was not a choice, but a requirement

      It has been framed as such, but no evidence has been given that it was a requirement

    • CALIGVLA@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      12 hours ago

      and was not just some sort of “Russia bad” thing from Torvalds

      The way he announced it and responded to the critics very much made it seem like that. He legitimately needs to shut the fuck up and get a PR person to talk in his stead.