It seems authoritarians have a thing for making rules they love to break themselves.
The Linux kernel just axed some long-time Russian devs from their mailing list as well as from the MAINTAINERS and CREDITS files, basically erasing their contributions and handicapping future contributions. Anyone who dared speak out against the decision got the boot too.
Meanwhile, the Linux Foundation is raking in 250M annually but has nothing to say about this controversy…
Linus is tripling down with insults aimed at anyone who disagrees.
Roberto perfectly predicted that allowing codes of conduct and politics into open source would lead to this sort of thing…
