"The dismissal of Russian Linux employees can
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2025 10:23 am
The Ministry of Digital Development is planning to create its own Linux community for developers from countries willing to cooperate with Russia. This decision is a reaction to the exclusion of Russian developers from the global IT community.
The Ministry of Digital Development is planning to create its own Linux community, which will unite developers from those countries that are ready to work with Russia. A representative of the ministry told RBC about this. This statement was a reaction to the dismissal of 11 Russian employees involved in the development of the Linux operating system kernel.
be regarded as another instance new zealand whatsapp resource of discrimination. The key direction, in our opinion, today is strengthening cooperation and establishing a dialogue with those countries that are ready to work with us," said a representative of the Ministry of Digital Development. "It is necessary to negotiate with them and build our own alternative structure." He added that it is important to create conditions for cooperation, which can help create a unique product. The representative of the Ministry of Digital Development did not specify whether the creation of such an alternative community has already been discussed with any countries.
The Linux community is part of the global free software community. It is a group of users and developers working on open source software (Open Source, i.e. software distributed under a free license agreement, when the user receives the right to use the program for any purposes not prohibited by law; has access to the source code of the program to study it or process it, make changes, unlike proprietary, i.e. non-free software owned by the copyright holder). One of the most famous such communities is the Linux community, formed around the GNU/Linux operating system. It includes participants from many countries: in addition to Russia, these are the USA, Germany, India, Brazil, China, Japan, countries of Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, etc. The operating system successfully competes in some segments of the global IT market with products from Microsoft and Apple.
The founder of the Linux community and the leading developer is Linus Torvalds. On October 23, another Linux kernel developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, decided to remove 11 Russian specialists who participated in the development of this operating system. Among those removed were community representatives who use Russian mail services or are associated with Russian organizations, including Moscow State University, SberDevices (develops user services and "smart" devices), "Open Mobile Platform" (develops the Russian operating system "Aurora", belongs to "Rostelecom").
The following day, October 24, Torvalds, explaining the reasons for this decision, indicated that it was related to the recommendations of lawyers in light of the sanctions imposed against Russia.
What will the suspension affect?
The main victim of the dismissal of Russian employees will be Linux, according to Ivan Panchenko, co-founder and deputy CEO of Postgres Professional. "This decision will have an adverse effect on the life of the developer community, mutual trust in it, and therefore on the quality of the product. The contribution of Russian developers to the Linux kernel is not that great, in this sense, nothing critical will happen. Russian patches (updates or additions to fix problems in the software or change its functionality. — RBC) will probably continue to be accepted, but Russian forks (branching — using the code of a software project as a start for another. — RBC) may arise," he explained.
The Ministry of Digital Development is planning to create its own Linux community, which will unite developers from those countries that are ready to work with Russia. A representative of the ministry told RBC about this. This statement was a reaction to the dismissal of 11 Russian employees involved in the development of the Linux operating system kernel.
be regarded as another instance new zealand whatsapp resource of discrimination. The key direction, in our opinion, today is strengthening cooperation and establishing a dialogue with those countries that are ready to work with us," said a representative of the Ministry of Digital Development. "It is necessary to negotiate with them and build our own alternative structure." He added that it is important to create conditions for cooperation, which can help create a unique product. The representative of the Ministry of Digital Development did not specify whether the creation of such an alternative community has already been discussed with any countries.
The Linux community is part of the global free software community. It is a group of users and developers working on open source software (Open Source, i.e. software distributed under a free license agreement, when the user receives the right to use the program for any purposes not prohibited by law; has access to the source code of the program to study it or process it, make changes, unlike proprietary, i.e. non-free software owned by the copyright holder). One of the most famous such communities is the Linux community, formed around the GNU/Linux operating system. It includes participants from many countries: in addition to Russia, these are the USA, Germany, India, Brazil, China, Japan, countries of Europe, Latin America, Africa and Asia, etc. The operating system successfully competes in some segments of the global IT market with products from Microsoft and Apple.
The founder of the Linux community and the leading developer is Linus Torvalds. On October 23, another Linux kernel developer, Greg Kroah-Hartman, decided to remove 11 Russian specialists who participated in the development of this operating system. Among those removed were community representatives who use Russian mail services or are associated with Russian organizations, including Moscow State University, SberDevices (develops user services and "smart" devices), "Open Mobile Platform" (develops the Russian operating system "Aurora", belongs to "Rostelecom").
The following day, October 24, Torvalds, explaining the reasons for this decision, indicated that it was related to the recommendations of lawyers in light of the sanctions imposed against Russia.
What will the suspension affect?
The main victim of the dismissal of Russian employees will be Linux, according to Ivan Panchenko, co-founder and deputy CEO of Postgres Professional. "This decision will have an adverse effect on the life of the developer community, mutual trust in it, and therefore on the quality of the product. The contribution of Russian developers to the Linux kernel is not that great, in this sense, nothing critical will happen. Russian patches (updates or additions to fix problems in the software or change its functionality. — RBC) will probably continue to be accepted, but Russian forks (branching — using the code of a software project as a start for another. — RBC) may arise," he explained.