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    …and we don’t know whether they’re the former or the latter, no? So maybe a little early to get outraged?

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        Honestly I wish that was a principle that the internet embraced more. We’re so trigger-happy to be outraged.

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          29 days ago

          No the contributors should not be considered guilty until proven innocent just to give Linus et al the benefit of the doubt fuckface!

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            Oh geez, this the third reply by the same account… Again, I’m just saying that we don’t know whether the contributors were assumed guilty, or if they have actual ties to sanctioned companies.

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              I’m pretty talkative on certain subjects when I see people mangling the discussion and engaging in bad faith.

              This is just softpedaling it and telling people to suspect foul play just because they are Russian honestly. There are some significant sanctions going up against Israeli companies but nobody seems concerned with that.

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                No, I’m telling people not to suspect anything, because we don’t know anything.

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                  I think what we know paints a really bad picture and Torvalds should not get the benefit of the doubt while trying to silence his detractors by calling them Russian bots.

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      29 days ago

      Would you say that Linux contributors with ties to MIT and other US universities that get funding from the same organizations of the MIC and intelligence racket are suspect? No? Yeah just Russians. Cold War propaganda chugging little twerp

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        No, I’m saying that if the banned people are only banned because they’re associated with the Russian government (/employed by sanctioned companies), then I’m not going to get outraged over the kernel maintainers. I do not expect them to break the law just to die on this hill.

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          This is all hypothetical, they are calling everyone dismayed by this Russian bots, and it’s clear this is happening in sync with US aggression against Chinese professors and tech workers in the west. Most of my comments here have been pretty independent of what you’re saying anyways. The wider context which could even justify speculating about this where open source is beholden to western laws and corporate practices should be a wake up call to people.

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            This is all hypothetical

            Yes, that is exactly my point: let’s not get all worked up about something where we have almost zero facts. Although:

            open source is beholden to western laws and corporate practices

            is definitely the case for the Linux Foundation: it’s beholden to US laws. And wake-up call or not, a foundation would always be incorporated somewhere, and beholden to the laws of that somewhere.

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              I think getting all worked up about it is probably the first step to getting more information out of them. ┻━┻︵ (°□°)/ ︵ ┻━┻