the Russians should do the fork.
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Such forks have existed for a long time already.
That’s not the issue. Today, they removed Russian names, and tomorrow they might reject code from, say, a Palestinian or a Syrian. This is all very unhealthy for open source, but it's the reality we live in now, thanks to the U.S. authorities and DEI.
and my point is that Palestinians and Syrians would be welcome by the Russians
the world has split into NATO and BRICS
if Linus made it clear that he is NATO then there needs to be a BRICS alternative