Kernel contributor James Bottomley's response to the recent maintainers removal

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I wonder if it was a good choice to let Linux be owned by a company governed by a non-neutral government who frequently imposes sanctions on other entities. And if someday people wish to transfer this to another country, will US government intervene?

Why does the Treasury Department have say over a nonprofit company in this regard?

I could see they could do export restrictions, but how do they have control over taking in patches without compensation?

I remember the times when we were proud to print pgp code in a book to circumvent US export restrictions

Simply bowing to a request (has there even been one?) of an overreaching government is not in the hacker spirit

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