Did he ban Israelis for their aggression? Americans for theirs over the years?
Linus and the Linux project just shot themselves in the foot, now if you are Russian you cannot participate in the development of the kernel, politics is hateful and should not mix politics and free software projects of vital importance as Linux.
This can be a before and after in Linux.
Long live BSD systems.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Russian-Linux-Maintainers-Drop
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