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tension on kernel mailing lists continues to grow as a Linux Foundation board member finally replies with a "summary of the legal advice the kernel is operating under" re: enforcing US sanctions (lore.kernel.org)
submitted 2 years ago* by [M] to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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[–] 82 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The reality is that the Linux Foundation is in the United States, and Linus is a naturalized US citizen who lives in Oregon (at least on Wikipedia). So they both will have to pay attention to avoid transacting business with individuals and companies on the SDN list. That is the law in the United States.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Kreg moved to Europe, last I heard. So at least the heir apparent is in a region with better potential international diplomacy and neutrality.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Would a fork be the solution to avoid having a system that is crucial for people worldwide cease to be a weapon at the hands of merrican politicians?

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  • [–] 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    I'm afraid that if the sanctions will continue to be a go-to method of dealing with geopolitical rivals, we may end up with a few divergent forks. One for US and "the west" block, one for Chinese comrades with their junior Russian partners, and maybe one for Indian code gurus who don't like both sides and have capable engineering resources themselves.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Could be. Maybe not a hard fork, if this slap fight can be contained in the driver space. I’d keep an eye on OpenHarmony and OpenKylin.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    Thank you for that! I was perplexed since I've been in the Linux space for 25 years and I was thinking that I would have to switch to bsd.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    I’m afraid that if the sanctions will continue to be a go-to method of dealing with geopolitical rivals, we may end up with a few divergent forks. One for US and “the west” block, one for [...]

    Considering that that this idea of making a Linux for the US vs a Linux for "the rest of the world" was what made me ditch Fedora for Debian, it'd be a shame to have it happen to Linux as well. Like, sure, an alternative will emerge, but where does one go while that progresses to be daily-driver? Haiku?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    This kind of thing is the inevitable outcome of US policy to "decouple", which they are pushing. Take something they nominally control, kick out every designated enemy / enemy collaborator, and then watch as an alternative pops up among the " enemy" and ban its purchase or use.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Then they should try to free themselves from it.

    And governments should wise up and exempt them from any kind of petty stuff.

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  • [+] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    This is not something that needs balance.

    And they have quite different kinds of petty:

    When Linus gets petty, then there's a proper rant, somebody gets red in the face (but you don't get to see the pics), and some news interns can write headlines.

    When politicians get petty, then people in foreign countries are killed.

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