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I’m OOTL. Why are people upset with Torvalds?

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He followed legal advice from lawyers and removed some russians from being kernel maintainers to comply with sanctions.

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People are more mad about how he did it rather than just the action he took. If he just explained why without being a prick nobody would care.

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Lemmy.ml accounts mad a f.

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We have to face is Linus might be good intentionned but his years on the internet have made him an remorseless abrasive juvenile dickhead. I wish he’d lampshade it because most of the tine he comes off as just a nasty arogant goblin. It’s clear he feels permitted for his accomplishment and hard work to take his frustrations on others and it’s clear he knows it’s really not fucking helping but it seems he simply can’t help himself. Like being nice is a sign of weakness.

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Only those with ties to Russian Government? like govt jobs etc? or all?

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anyone working for internationally sanctioned russian companies.

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He took the authorization for a bunch of Russians from being able to keep working on the Linux stuff. I’m def not remembering everything and I’d suggest you searching any news about it, it’s an interesting read

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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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