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ch3 6 days ago

The author is Russian and seems to work for Positive Technologies, which is on the sanctions list.

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darkwater 6 days ago | parent | next [-]

But he has an @linux.com email address though.

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koakuma-chan 6 days ago | parent [-]

What the hell is linux.com? .com is for commercial.

	▲	darkwater 6 days ago \| parent [-]
		"Linux.com is brought to you by The Linux Foundation, the organization of choice for the world’s top developers and companies to build ecosystems that accelerate open technology development and commercial adoption. Please see www.linuxfoundation.org for more information on The Linux Foundation, its mission and its members. " https://www.linux.com/about/

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Arch-TK 6 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Interesting side effect of the sanctions.

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shmel 6 days ago | parent [-]

Is it really a side effect though? I think the entire point of these sanctions (or their implementation by Linux Foundation more specifically) is to prevent developers working for Russian companies from contributing to Linux. It isn't a side effect, it's the intended effect, wouldn't you say so?

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Ygg2 6 days ago | parent [-]

I thought the idea is to prevent Russian hackers from introducing exploits. Not prevent Russian hackers from fixing exploits.

	▲	cyphar 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		No, the point is to stop Amercian technology companies from providing technology to Russian entities. From the perspective of sanction laws, accepting patches (or arguably even replying to emails) from sanctioned entities is effectively providing technology to them because you are telling them that the patch solves the issue (i.e., you are providing them technical expertise) and are making it easier for them to use the patch in the future (i.e., no need to rebase and shipping software that they have indicated that they will find particularly useful). The Linux Foundation provided some guidance about this earlier this year[1]. Basically, it is incredibly easy to inadvertently violate sanctions if you are involved in an open source project. [1]: https://www.linuxfoundation.org/blog/navigating-global-regul...