For us naive ones who thought Linux is free, open source

[BikeGremlin]

Yes, apparently Linux is government-controlled and used to enforce the corporate policies & politics:

TL/DW:
Major Linux contributors banned from contributing just for being Russian, based on US president Biden's executive order (E.O.) 14071.

Apparently, even if a GPL software project is based in a country outside of US (Germany, Serbia or even Russia for that matter), you must choose between having one or more US developers contributing or having one or more Russian developers contributing. I.e. even for projects based outside of US, if there is at least one US person involved in practically any way, you must not have any Russians involved in any way.

This came soon after the WordPress drama (another "free open source" software that turned out to not be really free or open).

 

[VlPo]

How tired of this nonsense going on around...

 

[BikeGremlin]

How tired of this nonsense going on around...

+1

I'm tempted to say it's crazy, but in truth it seems like it's very reasonable, calculated, and evil.

 

[VlPo]

I try not to touch on "politics", but I would love to gather this whole gang and send them somewhere to the Moon so that they don't interfere with life.