It is a tricky topic that is hard to get right. For instance the CoreJS dev is Russian and he is maintaining a library that is depended on by a large number of counties.
In general I support any action to further distance Russia but I can understand how the Russian maintainers feel. After all they may or may not support Russia.
The likely cause of this was the fact that it looks bad on paper for Linux to have Russian involvement. After all that’s where all the “hackers” live. Somehow I think this was probably in response to a threat behind closed doors.
I also would be concerned about counties trying to compromise foss but unfortunately that is just as likely to come from the US as it is from Russia.
How to piss off the tankies 101
I don’t agree with communists either but open source software is supposed to be about more than that
It is a tricky topic that is hard to get right. For instance the CoreJS dev is Russian and he is maintaining a library that is depended on by a large number of counties.
In general I support any action to further distance Russia but I can understand how the Russian maintainers feel. After all they may or may not support Russia.
The likely cause of this was the fact that it looks bad on paper for Linux to have Russian involvement. After all that’s where all the “hackers” live. Somehow I think this was probably in response to a threat behind closed doors.
I also would be concerned about counties trying to compromise foss but unfortunately that is just as likely to come from the US as it is from Russia.