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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers (www.theregister.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] YeetPics@mander.xyz 3 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

You can't untaint code if the tainters (lol that sounds funny) can still edit the code.

If Torvalds is correct (he is), patching can now take place for vulnerabilities.

Good point!

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 1 points 4 weeks ago

Well it seems it was more to do with sanctions, if the open letter from one of the chopped developers is to be believed. In which case, I think the right thing is to move the names to contributors (they did still contribute), remove them from maintainers (some maintainers are actually paid by the foundation, I mean not a lot, but some are paid).

I still find it all a little odd. But likely there was a bit of a prod from somewhere higher as to how sanctions should be followed.