A blog post from Software Freedom Conservancy. Blog post by Rick Sanders. Please email any comments on this entry to <rick@sfconservancy.org>. Since the Linux project removed a number of entries from the MAINTAINERS file, all of whom were putatively Russian, in October, we've been receiving questions about U.S. sanctions against Russia and what, if anything, we should do about them. As I explain below, our position is that such drastic action, though defensible, is unnecessary. What would co...