I think that entire comment is actually incorrect. My understanding is that they did not “remove” any maintainers, but actually rejected patches from Russian citizens (because of their employer), and also removed some Russian names from the maintainers list who already have code in the kernel.

That doesn’t invalidate my statement though.

And here I am looking to move away from Linux after they started rejecting submissions for political reasons.

xpra can do this

what privacy lol, it’s already gone