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by immibis 599 days ago
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.
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It's pretty obvious that it's due to sanctions, but they don't want to say it.
But if that's the case, why don't they?
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.