The US dollar can be described exactly the same way and has a richer history of it.

Especially since August 15th '71.

It may happen

Learned from IBM for sure.

GAFAM is fascist. I’m shocked, shocked i tell you!

I get where you’re coming from… but no. Forking linux is way less dangerous for the world than Trump in the White House.

Russians are still free to use and contribute to Linux development. Just a few people lost their maintainer rights.

Yeah… Russians lost rights. A bit of a catch-22 there, pal.

No, but they can host the infrastructure so that excluded developers (the ones that just so happen to be Russian) along with whomever will want (BRICS developers for instance) can surely contribute.

It’ll be called BRICS Linux.

Who owns the copyright is irrelevant.

It is, which is why i focused on where the repository is located and whether that determines possession.

Russia might invade Finland.

Finland’s part or NATO now. Putin may be a lot of things, stupid ain’t one of them. Ironically, this kinda backfired on him but can’t say it was unexpected considering most scandinavians love the american dream.

The US is the most belligerent nation on earth, shall we ban american contributors? How about israeli?

Should their code be removed from the kernel?

The real question i haven’t seen answered is Who owns the kernel code. Torvalds owns the Linux™ but that’s to prevent others from buying it, but i was under the impression the source code is owned by all those who contribute to it and not whoever happens to be employing Torvalds at the time. Or is it a matter of where https://git.kernel.org/ happens to be hosted?

I’d suggest Codeberg but that’s in Germany, so maybe another forgejo instance hosted maybe in Switzerland.

Oooooh, of course, how could i forget? Blame the cis white male and the patriarchy, or course!

China tried it, didn’t go too well… good luck trying it on a global scale…

if we drastically reduce the human population. Which would not only avoid the issues caused by climate change but also would prevent further increases in pollution and CO2 emissions.

Ignoring the genocide-apologist trend, the pandemic did wonders to reduce global warming…, perhaps start taxing more the companies that force back-to-office when they could clearly keep most of their work force at home?

Taiwan-based firm stops shipments to China-based firm due to US-says-so? Maybe Taiwan should join BRICS.

connected to a hotspot

These tend to use SIM-cards too. IF you want to avoid triangulation don’t even put a SIM card in at all.

Never smoked in my life… sorry to disappoint.

He can certainly claim to have perfected it, but he certainly didn’t invent it.

He did jack all, SpaceX engineering teams did everything.

Have you actually watched the video?

And prohibition does work in some cases. See, cigarettes. Smoking has been in the fall for a long time especially among the young.

Prohibition only feeds black markets.