• BobGnarley@lemm.ee
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      23 days ago

      I don’t agree with communists either but open source software is supposed to be about more than that

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        23 days ago

        It is a tricky topic that is hard to get right. For instance the CoreJS dev is Russian and he is maintaining a library that is depended on by a large number of counties.

        In general I support any action to further distance Russia but I can understand how the Russian maintainers feel. After all they may or may not support Russia.

        The likely cause of this was the fact that it looks bad on paper for Linux to have Russian involvement. After all that’s where all the “hackers” live. Somehow I think this was probably in response to a threat behind closed doors.

        I also would be concerned about counties trying to compromise foss but unfortunately that is just as likely to come from the US as it is from Russia.

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          @possiblylinux127 @BobGnarley One would hope there are enough checks and balances such a major opensource project as Linux to keep malware out of the kernel regardless of who contributes to it, but we do there have been some instances where that was not the case.

          I see the evolution of the Internet as humanity growing a nervous system, and anything that gets in the way of that as negative.

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            23 days ago

            I’ve never heard of malware making into the kernel. The closest I’ve head was that university “research project” that tried to insert backdoors.

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      23 days ago

      How to piss off people 101.

      Do you fail to remember how the tech world collectively cringe at one guy who intentionally injected malware into his own npm library to delete all data from Russia and Belarus?