[worstspotgain]

Apparently (quelle surprise) Linus is getting swarmed by Russian trolls like a US swing-state voter. From https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linus-Torvalds-Russian-Devs

Ok, lots of Russian trolls out and about. It's entirely clear why the change was done, it's not getting reverted, and using multiple random anonymous accounts to try to "grass root" it by Russian troll factories isn't going to change anything. And FYI for the actual innocent bystanders who aren't troll farm accounts - the "various compliance requirements" are not just a US thing.

If you haven't heard of Russian sanctions yet, you should try to read the news some day. And by "news," I don't mean Russian state-sponsored spam. As to sending me a revert patch - please use whatever mush you call brains. I'm Finnish. Did you think I'd be _supporting_ Russian aggression? Apparently it's not just lack of real news, it's lack of history knowledge too.

[immibis]

That's fine, but we would like to see the orders he received and the evidence. This patch is outrageous because of the lack of transparency, not the patch itself if there's a good reason for it. Linus and Greg appear to be not only not posting a reason, but trying to keep the reason secret.

[colejohnson66]

It's pretty obvious that it's due to sanctions, but they don't want to say it.

[immibis]

But if that's the case, why don't they?

[colejohnson66]

Lawyers.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/7ee74c1b5b589619a13c6318c9fbd0d6...

[immibis]

What about them? I can say "it's illegal for me to murder someone" without a lawyer being involved and so I can say "it's illegal for me to collaborate with company X" if that is true. Lawyers wouldn't stop me saying that unless something fishy was happening.