It all started because he was shitting on the NY Times for being an ad-ridden mess where you have to call a human in order to cancel your subscription. Someone called NY Times woke communist propaganda and Linus went nerd rage on them.

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  • Roonerino
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    3 months ago

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    • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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      4 months ago

      I was under the impression he was still doing most of the active programming work on the kernel himself

      this hasn't been the case in two or three decades

      • someone [comrade/them, they/them]
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        4 months ago

        This is true. But he's still a good programmer, he does understand the code that he's approving or rejecting. He's not some techbro jagoff.

        • combat_brandonism [they/them]
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          4 months ago

          Sure I wasn't saying otherwise, it's just that the triumph of Linux is in its community, not Linus. It's never been just him, which is the sentiment that produced the RMS soundclip meme of 'GNU-slash-linux'.