we have no choice but to push people from non-aligned countries away

Non-aligned countries are fine, they can always invade most of the countries once again, the issue is with the Eastern block.

i don’t see what it offers over e.g. debian

Open clan has better techno-mages

I mean, it’s not like he’s going to say “I’ve got a few mil in redhat stocks, and they signed a new $800+ mil deal with the DoD 2 months ago, so we’ve got to clean house”

Though even if they weren’t, it is the morally correct thing to do to give Russian state actors the boot.

Meanwhile Linus is fine with supporting USA DOD and making a profit from it. Funny how morality changes when you introduce other interests… It’s a purely business move and has nothing to do with ethics.

Best case scenario: sunk cost fallacy

Worst case scenario: there’s a lot of shit you can do when you control a closed source app store, and canonical has a history of doing sketchy shit like selling user data to Amazon