There are multiple sanctions programs, and at least in the US, for the sanctions program which Huawei is in, there is an exception for conversations and patches that take place in a public mailing list, such as LKML.

I guess evil ruski developers are having gremlins secretly commit their patches while Linus is fast asleep.

Somewhere else Linus Torvalds flew off the handle. Calling people Russian shills, paid actors etc. To justify his anger, he held up his heritage and said “I’m Finnish”.

Sad to see. Must be hard for those who have been following Linux, or even contributing, for a long time, seeing it devolve into such pathetic falling in lockstep with the most demeaning lines of the day about countries the US deems “bad”.

this whole debacle has me censored everywhere.

simple double standards. and saying israel is not under sanctions that’s why they aren’t banned. i’m so fkn sick of this nonsense.

all of the Linux infrastructure and a lot of its maintainers are in the US

Maybe if they migrate to the Principality of Sealand 😐