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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good! So why the incendiary comments Linus made on Russians. It is so hard to say something like this: "I have to expel them from the project due to a US law forced us to do it. However, I had trust on them all these years and they contributed a lot to the project (that is why they were working here). Now, I am against the law because we should not discriminate people for the origin. Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it. Finally, this harms the entire Linux project because now makes it an "American"project rather than an global one. Sad times."

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Have you noticed exactly how many Russians are bigots who support the mass murder of their neighbors?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

I mean there's probably a lot who don't, but they're busy firing missiles at civilians in Ukraine to get around their 15y work camp sentence.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 days ago

You are going to find bigots in every country. In US the biggest political figures right now are a fascist and a genocide supporter.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

xz attack was an open source attack and it would be silly to assume that it was unique.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This has nothing to do with xz

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I don't think you understood their point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

In response to:

Moreover, the claim that they can harm the software is unwarranted because it is OPEN and many eyes are on it.

The xz attack was an intentional backdoor put into a project that was "OPEN and many eyes are on it." Also, it was discovered due to the way it was executing and not because someone found it in the source. The original assumption has been proven wrong.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Oh, yep I didn't see that. Though definitely more eyes are on Linux than were on xz