To be fair, it’s entirely possible to make the same and very similar mistakes in Rust, too.

you can’t know that

I think that entire comment is actually incorrect. My understanding is that they did not “remove” any maintainers, but actually rejected patches from Russian citizens (because of their employer), and also removed some Russian names from the maintainers list who already have code in the kernel.

yikes.

That doesn’t invalidate my statement though.

And here I am looking to move away from Linux after they started rejecting contributions for political reasons.

I still don’t think something so important should be beholden to the whims of one company (Linux Foundation) or their country’s laws (USA).

I would strongly prefer to use an operating system that didn’t have this problem. Do any even exist?

Not everyone wants to live in the terminal. I would argue most people don’t.

I would use Ada or Spark in a heartbeat if there was an easy-to-use, mature cross-platform GUI library for it.

Open Technology Fund

Which is funded by US Congress, and they also funded Signal.

For those do not wish to use privacy-related projects funded by a world government, what is a good (in your opinion) alternative? Both with and without Tor involvement (since US govt funded that too).

Yes I realize encryption, computers and the internet are all also govt-funded, but everyone is free to pick their battles.

The burden of proof lies upon the person making empirically unfalsifiable claims.

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