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what next? removing all developers who have ever visited russia (because they have probably been told they would be tortured unless they put a backdoor)? removing all developers that have family ties to china? removing anyone who hasn't been born in US and who has family outside of US? if Linus father, who lives in Finland, visits Russia should Linus be removed then?

What you wrote is very logical but it doesn't explain who defines how "evil" the country is. And the answer is "US". All your 4 paragraphs could be rewritten with "US defines if you are worthy or not". Which sounds real and quite disappointing to many people who thought Linux is a shared effort of the humanity

I haven't followed the original events but I understand their actions. Probably they need to have "no russian developers" ticked for compliance for some defense contractor. So they have run "grep -rF .ru .git/" and found russian developers to remove to tick that requirement. I would have probably done the same -- it's easier to do it that to explain to many people why those people aren't evil