Re: Maintainers now blocked from kernel.org mail access [WAS Re: linux: Goodbye from a Linux community volunteer]

metux
2024-10-30T15:03:15Z

Resending with another address, since the other one is
hard-blocked / censored by kernel.org mail server.

On 30.10.24 15:33, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> On 24.10.24 20:19, Hantong Chen wrote:
>
>> What LF and Linus done will inevitably create a climate of fear where
>> contributors and maintainers from the *Countries of Particular Concern*
>> feels endangered.
>
> And it's getting worse:
>
> They're now blocking mail traffic on kernel.org, even from maintainers.
> (my whole company is hard-marked as "spam"). Anything @kernel.org -
> lists as well as invidual inboxes.
>
> Still in the process of compiling evidence report. Anybody out there
> who's affected too, let me know - will be added to the report.
>
> I wonder when this one will be blocked, too. (I've still got many more
> left).
>
>> This is clearly NOT what contributors truly want. People from around
>> the world
>> once firmly believed that Linux was a free and open-source project.
>> However,
>> Greg's commit and Linus' response deeply disappoint them.
>
> Indeed. The trust that had been bulit up in decades is now finally
> destroyed - just by a few mails.
>
> Linux has been turned into POSS, politware.
>
>> Open-source projects might be international, but the people or
>> organizations
>> controlling them are not. This is the source of concern and
>> disappointment.
>
> That's why those projects should never depend on just a few individuals
> or organisations in one specific country.
>
>
>
> --mtx
>