Several Linux Kernel Driver Maintainers Removed Due To Their Association To Russia

Sounds like the actual drivers were not removed, just the people who voluntarily signed up to maintain them.

Somewhat makes sense.

There's a lot of people acting in bad faith these days and it's difficult to validate their intentions if their nationality brings up a red flag.

It would be naive to assume a citizen of a sanctioned country would more loyal to an unpaid position in an open source project than their own country/government.

If India had a similar open source project, I'm pretty sure we wouldn't want any Chinese citizen contributing code to it. I mean, the government was petty enough to proactively ban commerce with China through apps and trade, and this is a question of volunteering.

I remember at the first sign of the mess that Russia created, many companies immediately left Russia and reregistered in eastern europe as a completely seperate entity.

For better or worse the world is divided into enemies and allies and who those are vary greatly depending on which part of the world you're in.

There will never a utopian world because greed exists as a human quality.

So much for "open source"

Sigh!

Sets a very bad precedent. The code can always be reviewed.

Even a recent security issue was due to a binary blob being committed to the codebase.