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saagarjha
For someone looking to avoid drama this seems like an awful lot of drama.
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jzb
"He himself is a billionaire and no longer writes any code."

I expect Linus will be a little shocked and quite pleased to find this out. The billionaire part, anyway.

wongogue
I don’t know whether he still likes to do it but I saw several merge requests from him last month. To himself obviously. :)
kstenerud
I like to do that, too. It's nice to have more pairs of eyes on it just in case I've made some blunder somewhere.
j16sdiz
Good Luck.

Keeping a linux fork is not a task a single developer could afford. .. and cqwrteur don't have good track record working with others.

Honestly I like his idea/direction, but I don't think he can success

johntb86
Who is cqwrteur? Is he a well-known character in the Linux community?
kstenerud
Well, at the very least it could spur some maintenance in the Linux kernel (such as making things easier for C++ and case-insensitive filesystems).
properpopper
Good, people shouldn't be discriminated based on a place where they were born. We all live on one planet together, but people are placing the "county" concept above anything else, which often unites to hate "foreigners"
krylon
Honest question: Is this satire?
bubblesnort
Interesting. I haven't ever seen a Linux fork change the actual name before. Doing so while maintaining BC is quite a challenge.

I'd imagine me on a computer in the future:

    $ uname -a

    Microborg MCS+ (Windows 18, like Linux) Azure 99.99.99
notorandit
IMPHO, I think that the removal of Russians contributors from the kernel contributor list is a big error.

Because it is all about politics. And the move let non-technical decisions step into this project.

Is it ok for you, Linus Torvalds, that politics can decide to ban also Chinese, Israeli, Iranian, European contributors? Or any non-USA developer?

Pesky developers or ones sneaking malicious code in need to be banned because their "contribs" would make the kernel worse (in a general sense).

Are Russian, Iranian or Israeliani devs making the kernel any better? Is the quality of their contribs in line with expectations?

Can those contributors harm or negatively affect the project?

Sorry, Linus. While still being a hero for me, that was a bad decision for what my opinion matters.