Posts by nickj2019

Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers

Free Software should be neutral

The world is divided politically into two camps: (1) "the west" (broadly, the USA and its satellites/puppet states) and (2) BRICS (broadly, everybody else). People in "the west" mostly see only US propaganda and believe Russia, China, etc are "evil". People in Russia mostly see Russian propaganda - etc.

Free Software should rise above all this. Neither side is wholly "evil", both sides do bad stuff.

Where a developer lives should not matter as far as contributions to free software are concerned.

Huawei dev flamed for 'useless' Linux kernel code contributions

Dev should NOT have been flamed

New contributors are actually encouraged to start with very simple fixes (like fixing typos in comments) to get used to the patch-submission process.

As a completely separate matter, any company that pressures employees to work 9/9/6 should be called out regularly and legislators should be pressured to impose sanctions. I'm not pointing a finger at Huawei, actually I don't think it's true that they make developers work 9/9/6. But there are companies that do and they shouldn't be allowed to get away with it.

GIMP open source image editor forked to fix 'problematic' name

Can't we all agree "Gimp" is just a terrible name?

Why all the heated discussion over exactly why Gimp is a really awful name?

The important point is that it is a terrible name. So let's support the fork that changes it.