The shit Linux kernel throws out all Russian contributors despite being hobbyists and despite having done nothing wrong, except their nationality.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/2024101835-tiptop-blip-09ed@gregkh/

Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements.They can come

back in the future if sufficient documentation is provided.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

https://lore.kernel.org/all/2m53bmuzemamzc4jzk2bj7tli22ruaaqqe34a2shtdtqrd52hp@alifh66en3rj/

From: Serge Semin <fancer.lancer@gmail.com>

Subject: linux: Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer

Hello Linux-kernel community,

I am sure you have already heard the news caused by the recent Greg' commit

6e90b675cf942e ("MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance

requirements."). As you may have noticed the change concerned some of the

Ru-related developers removal from the list of the official kernel maintainers,

including me.

The community members rightly noted that the quite short commit log contained

very vague terms with no explicit change justification. No matter how hard I

tried to get more details about the reason, alas the senior maintainer I was

discussing the matter with haven't given an explanation to what compliance

requirements that was. I won't cite the exact emails text since it was a private

messaging, but the key words are "sanctions", "sorry", "nothing I can do", "talk

to your (company) lawyer"… I can't say for all the guys affected by the

change, but my work for the community has been purely volunteer for more than

a year now (and less than half of it had been payable before that). For that

reason I have no any (company) lawyer to talk to, and honestly after the way the

patch has been merged in I don't really want to now. Silently, behind everyone's

back, bypassing the standard patch-review process, with no affected

developers/subsystem notified - it's indeed the worse way to do what has been

done. No gratitude, no credits to the developers for all these years of the

devoted work for the community. No matter the reason of the situation but

haven't we deserved more than that? Adding to the GREDITS file at least, no?..

I can't believe the kernel senior maintainers didn't consider that the patch

wouldn't go unnoticed, and the situation might get out of control with

unpredictable results for the community, if not straight away then in the middle

or long term perspective. I am sure there have been plenty ways to solve the

problem less harmfully, but they decided to take the easiest path. Alas what's

done is done. A bifurcation point slightly initiated a year ago has just been

fully implemented. The reason of the situation is obviously in the political

ground which in this case surely shatters a basement the community has been built

on in the first place. If so then God knows what might be next (who else might

be sanctioned…), but the implemented move clearly sends a bad signal to the

Linux community new comers, to the already working volunteers and hobbyists like

me.

Thus even if it was still possible for me to send patches or perform some

reviews, after what has been done my motivation to do that as a volunteer has

simply vanished. (I might be doing a commercial upstreaming in future though).

But before saying goodbye I'd like to express my gratitude to all the community

members I have been lucky to work with during all these years.

…

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And Linus, the racist asshole, be like:

https://lore.kernel.org/all/CAHk-=whNGNVnYHHSXUAsWds_MoZ-iEgRMQMxZZ0z-jY4uHT+Gg@mail.gmail.com/

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements."

Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about.

It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything.

And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US

thing.

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam.

As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

"I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian aggression?"

Finnland were supporting Nazi Germany back then, you fucking Marxist Socialist Nazi Linus.

Racist pig.

Time for a good new OS, not shit like this here.

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And as always Open Source Code of Conduct is full of Marxist shit.

From: Michael Shigorin <mike@altlinux.ru>

Subject: what about CoC? (was: [PATCH] Revert "MAINTAINERS: Remove some entries due to various compliance requirements.")

как хорошо, что по-русски можно писать то, что думаешь

On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 10:45:47AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> It's entirely clear why the change was done

Might seem so to you, but apparently not to those wondering.

> And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll

> farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not

> just a US thing.

US is just another victim of those trotzkist slugs –

you can ask your father, he must know better why

those have been expelled even by their own ilk

a century ago here in Russia.

> If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try

> to read the news some day. And by "news", I don't mean Russian

> state-sponsored spam.

Linus, those "news" have cost your family a child already,

and Elon has paid a similar tax. You have been limited in

your right to tell what you think right here in linux-kernel@

(unless you speak hate against all of the Russians, yeah).

You've agreed that black is white and vice versa. It is not.

> As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush

> you call brains.

It's not about the patch but rather about the attitude;

Documentation/process/code-of-conduct-interpretation.rst:

"regardless of … ethnicity, … nationality, … race"

"Focusing on what is best for the community"

"Examples of unacceptable behavior … insulting/derogatory

comments … Public or private harassment"

Get back to single-standard integrity for yor own's sake.

> I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be supporting Russian

> aggression?

Have you heard of casus belli? Do you think these were one?

http://nypost.com/2022/02/21/russia-kills-5-ukrainian-saboteurs-allegedly-trying-to-breach-border/

http://reuters.com/world/europe/russias-fsb-says-shell-ukrainian-territory-destroys-russian-border-guard-post-2022-02-21/

That's February 21, 2022. If I yelled all over the place

about "Finnish invasion" after Russian IFVs have rovered

Finland first for no good reason, would I be right?

Feel free to ask, I actually grew up in Kiev and e.g.

this bug fix was done there as well:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15658

http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?id=c9e2fbd909c20b165b2b9ffb59f8b674cf0a55b0

Please do revert it too then.

Drop Linux network stack while at that, that "roomful

of Russian mathematicians" is now declared untermensch.

> Apparently it's not just lack of real news,

> it's lack of history knowledge too.

On your side, Linus.

On your side.

==Hope you're still Finnish, not a Finnish nazi

(swap "Russians" with "Jews" in your email and

re-read it; it's my homegrown "nazi test" –

if this change suddenly makes a text "nazist",

it was).==

It is the US that has pushed Finland towards NATO,

basically to follow the grim destiny that the former

Ukraine currently harvests, and that was prepared

for Georgia (that evades it), Moldavia (that rishes

full speed towards destruction), Poland, the three

Baltic states, and now your homeland.

There is no regulation that can force your own heart.

Listen to it. Not to emotions, but to the deep truth

that never cries aloud.

You bow to the jerks who are afraid of opposition,

because there is no truth in their father.

Remember those who yelled "Assad must go"?

How many of them are still around?

Those siding with them perish with them.

PS: last time I've seen RMS in Moscow, he declared

his support "to the Moscow protesters"; I've asked him

whether he knows that the initial issue was that the

dead people were identified en masse as those "voting"

for "democratic" candidates in 2019 elections, and he

stared at me and answered, "nonsense". I've emailed

him after BLM affairs to ask if what he sees makes

sense but never seen a reply this time – and dead

voters turned out to be not a purely export-only

"technology" a bit later (pretty cosmopolitan).

Господи, спаси и сохрани раба Твоего заблуждшего

Линуса и ближних его во веки веков; аминь!

–

Michael Shigorin

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