* Posts by vulgaarimon

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Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

vulgaarimon

Re: 1939 Soviet invasion of Finland (Winter War)

That's an interesting statement when the history isn't all that clear to you either.

Finland was allied to Nazi Germany already prior to Barbarossa, although Finland was one of if not the only ally that did not sign Tripartite Pact unlike Italy and Japan (and later Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Ygoslavia), though Anti-Comintern Pact was signed by Finland so there's that. Was it a good thing? No, but what else would you have done when your neighbour is potentially looking for round two after Winter War and other nations nope out from potential alliance? Finland needed supplies and hardware especially to defend and that got them tied to Nazi Germany which eventually lead to Lapland War.

vulgaarimon

The thing is Linus Torvalds lives in USA and Linux Foundation, to which he works for nowadays, has main office in California, US. They kind of have to follow whatever comes out of US government, at least to a point. This isn't unique incident, kinda, really either. In 80's, 90's and early 2000's (or maybe it stopped at 2000 exact?) some software and as a results Linux distros had two different versions. One version for US and one version for rest of the world thanks to various restrictions on 'exporting cryptography',