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.
I just learned Linus torvalds has the correct political opinions
So this motherfucker might be the most remarkable man on the planet
I love that man. I dread the day he steps down, and I dearly hope whoever he appoints as his successor is as good as he is.
I don't have a great understanding of the whole GNU/Linux ecosystem but in spite of how huge it has become it also seems like the whole thing depends on Linus a lot more than is ideal for something of this scale.
The whole thing doesn't depend on him it's just that he's the benevolent dictator for life (BDFL) of the Linux kernel and everyone pulls from his git tree. Linus just reviews and approves patchsets sent to the kernel to his tree and people trust his judgement.
There should really be corresponding kernels besides Linux but so much of the development and hardware bring up is focused on the Linux kernel.
Oh okay, I was under the impression he was still doing most of the active programming work on the kernel himself.
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
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.
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'.
this shouldn't have made me belly laugh, but it just did 😭
OK, fine, you've convinced me. I'll watch his Tech Tips show.
not to be controversial, but i also absolutely cannot stand that linus.
Linus was always a better face for Linux anyway. We can collectively do without creepy toenail eating guy.
More like we ran out of luck due to the failing US medical system, he was a piece of shit but he didn't deserve to get fucked over with his mental health like that.
yeah, the craziest thing about Terry Davis is that in a better world where he could've gotten the treatment and support he needed, he could've easily been in the forefront of technological progress. mf casually wrote an operating system from the ground up with just-in-time compiled C as the shell.
There is a clip of Richard Stallman where it looks like he picks something off his foot and eats it.
"I dont want to see neurodivergent people in important positions, because they're weird"
Every fucking time RMS gets mentioned, the ableists go mask off.
Uh, I'm neurodivergent. He's not weird because he's neurodivergent. He's weird because of his opinions on pedophilia.
Linus and excoriating dumb asses. One of the best duos.
Hell, he doesn't even have look for it, it finds him. Geez.
Linus didn't sell out though and become a neo-nazi billionaire. He's a woke communist through and through!
Most nerds his generation are mostly libertarians if they didn't go the silicon valley elon techbro alt right pipeline. RMS was a libertarian and had a lot of brainworms.
If you asked them he'd probably say he's a demsoc judging from his reaction and that he's finnish
I’m old enough to remember that before techbros, techbrothers like Linus used to be way more common
techbrother from another motherboard
spoiler
i'll show myself out
I think a closer analogue to Notch would be Toby Fox who AFAIK is still cool.
Damn, if you tell me that he's against genocide next, then he's a tanky confirmed!
Ok but does he actually have the right opinions? Because the NYT is an imperialist capitalist rag. Like I would love to find out that Linus is genuinely a Communist but I would hate to find out that he's just a Liberal who calls himself a Socialist because he's confused about what the terms mean
He's a Finnish millionaire so he's closer to demsucc than ML but even demsuccs can shut down reactionary assholes. I don't think he would spew propaganda uncritically though like most liberals.
Europe is a weird place politically compared to the US.
This is pretty clearly a socialism is when roads conservatives owned type individual
Maybe he doesn't have the time to form the correctTM opinions about everything that exists in the known universe. I just look what he's doing and has been doing for the last 3 decades: writing an open, free and secure operating system that everybody can use. Linux is IMHO the proof that something like communism can work in the real world. Nobody owns it and you thousands of people work on it from all around the world. If people can collaboratively write software together then we can theoretically do everything together. Also: our modern world wouldn't be possible without Linux. It runs everywhere. Windows is just on a tiny fraction of all computers.
Even putting the sheer scale of Linux aside, the greater open source movement is literally software socialism. And open source is in literally everything. Even the overwhelming majority of proprietary software at least relies on OSS libraries.
