This is probably a smart move if they want an unforked linux kernel to stay in government use, but good grief:
Linus' reply is fucking bizarre. All he had to do was explain what's up, and instead he goes around accusing everyone of being paid Russian bot troll army psyop actors like some frothing retard on Reddit.
When a contractor utilizes FOSS the government requires scrutiny of the nationality of the contributors. If you are an iranian citizen (for instance), it is assumed the iranian government can just torture you or your family and make you introduce malicious code even if you don't want to. The government may or may not ever notice a particular violation but it can derail a whole contract so the contractors are generally very anal about it.
The problem is they evolved color codes to begin with. Right up there with systemctl/journalctl truncating lines unless you give it the magic option to stop fucking doing that.
The double irony is that he was forced to do this by paid government actors. Projection.
No, but rather because Linux is packaged and shipped in products used by companies that have to respect the US Commerce Dept's list of sanctioned persons and entities (read: OFAC) they probably got pressure from upstream to yeet the Ivans.
Linus has never not been retarded, but then neither have the rest of the clown college at the LKML. People need to wake up and realize that Linux is not Linus's pet project but something bought and paid for by corporate interests, and thus subject to political pressures. He doesn't get to call the shots. He is not a benevolent dictator for life without qualification. He's a paid ballwasher for corporate pharaohs.
This is literally all they had to say instead of sperging out and schizoposting about everyone not agreeing with the decision being a KGB agent. Why did it have to be some random developer instead of a single polite public relations person? I'm sure the Chinese are now drafting contingency plans when they're inevitably next.
FOSS fags are rarely subtle. I personally don't think Linus's outburst was his real feelings. It is just what is "expected" of him now. Standard lines that keep him safe and people from fucking with him. Trans rights/Russia bad Orange man is Hitler. If the political winds change, he will hop on the agenda of whoever is in charge then and parrot their line.
He was acting out because NSA just made him feel totally powerless, so to cope he decided to stab somebody where it hurts and twist the knife. That was vile, dehumanizing language even for him. At least usually his rants while amusing are based in some objective flaws in the code he's reviewing.
I agree. I just think this over acting is just a shield, to let people know he is "on the right side of history". If Trump takes control and starts pushing on him, Torvalds will make a 180 on his "woke atheist communist" bullshit. Linus is an opportunist. His Kernel is wrapped up with so much government grants and interests, that it not him speaking. It was the DoD telling him what to say, with his spergy spin on the delivery. He does not have his own opinions on issues. He has the party line.
Well something did change, that's the point that people are making. It's a change that many see as a signal for things to come, and are lamenting the loss of a good password manager and debating what to move on to.
If the supposed reasoning behind the removal was fear of backdoors from state actors, nothing would stop them from fabricating an identity of someone from more neutral state, like the xz backdoor guy did only getting caught due to sheer luck. Ironically, recent deprecation of real name policy caused by Hector Martin wanting to commit under the name of his vtuber persona makes it even easier.
Fat fingered the enter button like a chimp and can't edit it for some reason. Anyway, they got blocked because feelings took place over functionality, with recent events it's writing on the wall tier shit:
