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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: List of 787 MS products
Date: 30 Oct 2024 17:36:35 GMT
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On Wed, 30 Oct 2024 06:55:28 -0000 (UTC), RonB wrote:

> I've also read that more was made of this than was intended. So I'm not
> sure which story to believe. I DO know that at least one Russian kernel
> developer was blocked from contributing without going through the normal
> procedures (and without acknowledgment of what he's done for the kernel)
> by some censor-crazed committee or (probably) some small-minded
> committee member.

Several developers with .ru email addresses or 'Russian' names were 
removed. Then Torvalds jumped into it calling anyone who protested 
'Russian trolls'. He's a Finn so there is some history there but he should 
have kept his mouth shut.