${HOME}/repos

IF all else fails, use a Windows VM.

XFCE, lightweight and has a terminal. 's all i need when i’m not trying out something like xmonad.

Location.

'Cos all kernel contributors are paid…?

BRICS Linux.

they would basically have a separate project.

That’s what a fork is. Happens all the time.

Reddit refugees

Calling them refugees is an insult to actual refugees.

I think you’re confusing with israel.

It may happen

I get where you’re coming from… but no. Forking linux is way less dangerous for the world than Trump in the White House.

Russians are still free to use and contribute to Linux development. Just a few people lost their maintainer rights.

Yeah… Russians lost rights. A bit of a catch-22 there, pal.

No, but they can host the infrastructure so that excluded developers (the ones that just so happen to be Russian) along with whomever will want (BRICS developers for instance) can surely contribute.

It’ll be called BRICS Linux.

Who owns the copyright is irrelevant.

It is, which is why i focused on where the repository is located and whether that determines possession.

The US is the most belligerent nation on earth, shall we ban american contributors? How about israeli?

Should their code be removed from the kernel?

The real question i haven’t seen answered is Who owns the kernel code. Torvalds owns the Linux™ but that’s to prevent others from buying it, but i was under the impression the source code is owned by all those who contribute to it and not whoever happens to be employing Torvalds at the time. Or is it a matter of where https://git.kernel.org/ happens to be hosted?

I’d suggest Codeberg but that’s in Germany, so maybe another forgejo instance hosted maybe in Switzerland.

connected to a hotspot

These tend to use SIM-cards too. IF you want to avoid triangulation don’t even put a SIM card in at all.

Which law under which jurisdiction?

They employ Torvalds, Torvalds owns Linux™. Who owns the code?

Nope, they’re an oligarchy, pretty much like the US.