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

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[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

With that logic, the US contributes should be expelled too. We have more examples of US folks being served NSLs than Russians.

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

Lol because russian is so open about who they give nsl to. Or they just poison/defenestrate them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 minutes ago

Its the same in the US

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Its an American-based venture, owned and operated by American businessmen. They're not going to burn their own guys, even if some of them are spooks (no evidence that anyone on the core dev team is a spook, but crazy to think the FSB would have people in and the Five-Eyes guys wouldn't).

I do wonder how long until we start seeing mainstream code-forks that span geopolitical regions. Will we have a Digital Iron Curtain, with BRICS countries doing their own FOSS branches independently of NATO block?

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

Many European companies canceled contracts with US companies because of the NSL risk. I don't think the devide is NATO. The US laws are a threat to security and privacy everywhere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 minutes ago (1 children)

Many European companies canceled contracts with US companies because of the NSL risk.

I'd be curious to see who they were. My guess is that they are relatively small and easy enough to circumvent without breaking ties with America as a whole.

But I'm not seeing Exxon, Boeing, or Microsoft pull out of Europe, despite being deeply embedded with sanctioned regimes.

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

Biden literally introduced legislation to prevent it because it was a mass exodus. The companies you mentioned are US companies. I mean EU companies won't use US MSPs because of the risk

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

Looking at the downvotes, signals some true on you comment!

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

All that says is that there's a lot of people ITT who don't know what a downvote button is for, and the mods aren't doing their job