Post #1667522

2024-10-26 05:50 UTC

@LaF0rge Companies pay their employees to contribute to FOSS if and only if it benefits the companies in some way. Russian defense contractors don't contribute to Linux out of the goodness of their hearts. Letting them keep contributing means they keep benefiting The people that work for these companies but contribute in their free time don't have my sympathy too. Their day job is still building the tools to kill innocent people, and if all that costs them is their hobby then they got off easy

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@LaF0rge@chaos.social 2024-10-26 06:32

@AdrianVovk the freedom of FOSS is the freedom to use it for any purpose. I never really liked that, but licenses that would discriminate against certain use cases [like military] are neither compliant to free software definition nor open source definition. For decades that was the mantra.

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@czero@lor.sh 2024-10-26 14:26

@AdrianVovk @LaF0rge >Russian defense contractors don't contribute to Linux out of the goodness of their hearts 1. citation needed 2. can we stop this "defense contractor" bs? Baikal produced some MIPS and ARM-based SoCs for internal market, including SOHO segment. Russian MoD bought some of these, just like any other customer, and that's about it. *Real* Russian defense contractors operate under very strict NDAs and they would never ever make their efforts public. Let alone public for American NGO aka Linux Foundation, they'd be prosecuted for that. 3. this particular developer got his maintainer's status not for his Baikal upstreaming work but for volunteering work on projects unrelated to his employer and in his free time. This is pretty clearly described in his LKML post, which you apparently skipped (but decided to make judgements anyway)

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