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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

Hey, all of those people knew in advance what will happen. I know people who are working for companies under sanctions, that were contributing to kernel before the war, and all of them knew that at some point they might be banned from that, and they still aren't, their contributions just aren't merged without review.
The Russian sympathisers trying to spin it as their sudden act of russophobia out of the blue, but it's absolutely everything but. When you work for Putin and his war, you shouldn't be surprised that people don't trust you implicitly.