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europe is not on the american government's shit list and you mentioned forking; so you're as well aware as i am that removing the russians from linux maintainer's contributors list will not impact american allies in europe.
your question is clearly posed in bad faith and i suspect that its intention is something other than discussing what the trajectory of the open source world will be like in the future when the american government has control over it and starts expanding that control onto other open sourced projects.
You don't make any sense and are just throwing buzzwords around.
Linux is and has always been based in america. Having to follow sanctions is not the american goverment "controlling" Linux. Does it make sense to remove russian maintainer? I don't know. Probably not.
Does it mean the US is now controlling Linux development. Absolutly fucking not!
I suspect you that your intention is something other than discussing what the trajectory of the open source world will be like in the future.