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

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

I'm surprised how many people treat GPL to ignore borders. The IP law still operates only by the rules your country decides.

I can understand the desire for information to be free, but unless Open source movement becomes it's own country the discussion should end there.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 57 minutes ago (1 children)

Nobody says to ignore the law... it is Linus comments that were bad. Instead of defending the people that was working for him all these years and he had trust on them, he decided to throw them under the bus because he is from Finland. Well, Finland prospered the most on its life under neutrality.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 52 minutes ago (1 children)

Well I guess if he trusts them, he will welcome in open arms once the sanctions are lifted. Or if they get a non russian state domain to operate from.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 minutes ago

With those incendiary comments he did on the people that worked for him for years... I doubt they will be back. If he did not trust them, he would have gotten rid of them years ago. He waited to the deadline to kick them out... good, so he trusted them till now... but then, he despise them from being Russian. I simply don't get it... I don't know... maybe Linus is just an ass or he was forced to say that... I think probably the first.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Did they get paid?

Edit: Very likely they were paid, and that's where IP addresses end and sanctions begin.

Every worker within an organization has to be paid, somehow.

Somebody must bear the costs of the supposedly “free (gratis).” In the end, nothing is truly free cost. And, not a single person would work for free (no payment, compensation, or benefits, or in other words, gratis) full-time.

It is an absurdity to think otherwise.

Free and open-source software is handed out at zero-cost to make it possible to lower the barrier of entrance; to make it as widely available as possible. Knowledge should, indeed, be free (gratis).

https://medium.com/@uriadonayherrera/economics-in-foss-is-paying-for-free-and-open-source-software-an-investment-or-an-expense-19f187db8d5a

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

Explain volunteers then.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Where did you get volunteers from?

It's about people on the maintainers list, and those are paid.

That it's open software doesn't mean people are working for free.