Linux Torvalds opens his mouth, and my brain explodes

Ask me, and I will be the first to tell you: we have to be very careful with hostile country nationals working in our IT or contributing code to FOSS. But Linus's comment on banning Russians developers from KML are fucking insane.

Dude, if after all of the hoopla that ran circles in the West about diversity, inclusivity, multiculturalism, and other sorts of putrid shit, we begin to ban certain nation, then all of those lies have been nothing but lies.

If you are being forced, by way of legal pressure, to remove someone's authority to contribute code, then remove the code that they had been submitting. Otherwise you are making as much sense as lipstick on a pig. You've been happily committing their code to git, for decades, but now they are deemed a risk, and you not only delete them from your git but also badmouth them while still using their code. What is this if not an admission of lack of oversight over the code that goes into the kernel? I am becoming MORE concerned after your demarche than I had been before it.

If they write bad code with backdoors or landmines, then ditch that code.

If they write fine code, then ban them for the sake of compliance but be a man and do not crap on them.

Next, you allude to Finnish-Russian history. Dude, where do you draw the line? Swedes and Norsemen have been oppressing, massacring, and selling Finns to slavery, for millennia. Are they suddenly forgiven because of a few decades of political strife? Give me a break. You only proved yourself to be a pompous moron that I have been writing about, all along. Puke on you, turd!

I will repeat the permanent topic of this blog that does not and will not change: we collectively, in the West, have been behaving irresponsibly, as regards to our IT, by being too credulous towards hostile countries, and by doing so we have exposed our belly to stabs by our enemies that we witness daily. But Linus' demarche and his public statement about it are MORONIC.

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