@feld @sun >We should be more angry at the governments than Linus & co
Eh Linus' messaging on the topic was very unsympathetic, downright bizarre that he threw in "what, did you think I'd support Russian aggression?" when justifying ejecting maintainers, or at least justifying the lack of public justification for it. If he wants to dish it he'll just have to take it. I don't even care if it was a response to other accusations, it read to me like an attempt to muddy the waters and even smear the purge victims. All he had to do was say it's being done because of sanctions and details are still being worked out, but he just had to pretend morals played into the decision.

I don't doubt there could be pressure behind closed doors but it's a bad look that something so old is being treated as so urgent that they're *still* hashing out the details with their legal team after firing the gun out of nowhere.