This whole brouhaha is pretty disappointing. If they want to conflate individuals with their government, then every american maintainer should be removed as well, since their tax dollars fund US imperialism. Linus should clarify what specific sanction/rule/whatever led to their removal, as the blog author correctly points out. Linus's obscurantism is just throwing fuel on the fire.

It's so frustrating to see The Most Important Guy In Linux behave with the same degree of maturity I would expect from tilted teenage gamers.

Every month I see Linus Torvalds constantly shedding credibility for no reason whatsoever. Calling someone a "paid actor" is pretty demeriting, dude!