<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> this hasn&#39;t mattered since 1995, but if it somehow started, the correct move here is to relocate the Linux Foundation from countries with such idiotic regulation to somewhere more reasonable, not to yield to it and then whine on the mailing list about how everyone around is a &quot;russian troll&quot;</p>

<p>It would appear my ability to function is inversely correlated with proximity to election day.</p><p>So eager to be done with this election year!</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@dramforever" class="u-url mention">@<span>dramforever</span></a></span> you&#39;re aware how open source works, right?</p>

@whitequark@mastodon.social @SlicerDicer @sun@shitposter.world why? cryptography is a munition and is similarly export controlled. There's cryptography in the kernel, both IPSEC and KTLS now

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/feld" class="u-url mention">@<span>feld</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://friedcheese.us/users/SlicerDicer" class="u-url mention">@<span>SlicerDicer</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://shitposter.world/users/sun" class="u-url mention">@<span>sun</span></a></span> your anecdote about ITAR is irrelevant</p>

@dramforever@mastodon.social @whitequark@mastodon.social I don't know why *any* Chinese company is allowed to have access to anything that has cryptography from the West. It's very confusing how this stuff is selectively enforced.

@sun@shitposter.world @whitequark@mastodon.social you're not always allowed to speak of it. Like when ITAR was in effect on certain products, @SlicerDicer could not even reveal the existence of certain things on his MK15 to anyone. Period. I don't even think he was even supposed to mention ITAR to anyone.

@feld@friedcheese.us @whitequark@mastodon.social because they didn't say why, they just made vague references and Linus acted like a dickhead about it.

@whitequark@mastodon.social but why are people acting like this is a new thing? Laws are laws. This is not a new thing in the open source community. It was obvious that this was OFAC related