I've always liked Torvalds' blunt style.
Sometimes it works against him, but at least he's consistent about it.
Also, where do I sign up for my atheist card?
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We get cards now?
One could argue Linux, GPL, and Open Source are all based on woke communist concepts.
I'd argue they are anarchist socialist, at least in terms of intellectual property as they are collaborative and free to access and use. With permissive licenses being more anarchist capitalist as you can capture and make a project uncollaborative.
I would associate most of these concepts with GNU more than Linux.
Richard Stallman is a hero.
Torvalds isn't half bad either
soon the government will be run entirely on TeslaOS
Very loose definition of "leftist" there but we take a W where we can.
Linus is basically a "centrist dad" but that's fine with me.
Why are leftists the absolute worse for gatekeeping what makes a true leftist?
It's not gatekeeping, none of the opinions shared here by Linus are categorically leftist. The person retweeting him is erroneously putting him into a box, or knows more about his full ideology than he's shared in the tweet.
It's not gatekeeping to point out that 'leftist' historically doesn't mean 'left of center'. It's used as a reductive - but that's the nature of trying to reduce political ideologies to a single term - label for ideologies that are anti-capitalist. Nothing Linus said in this post points to him being anti-capitalist, he only commented on social issues.
He might still be a leftist, I'll give you that, but this post doesn't really show that.
To keep out fascists and centrists, quite obviously.
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If you believe in equality, you're woke. You're also a socialist. Because since fascism is a sincere belief in inequality based on identity, while neoliberalism (democrats) is a sincere belief in inequality based on class / wealth.
So yeah, this belief in equality or basic human decency needs to be destroyed in order to maximize profit. Invest in this propaganda, great ROI guaranteed!
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He is such a good role model for being wealthy.
He is, when it comes down to it, pretty wealthy. But we are talking about the guy who created the kernel that now runs nearly every Internet service, all Android phones, most streaming devices, and a lot of various embedded devices. Anyone else with that much impact would be a billionaire many times over.
But he's got a comfortable amount and has not exercised unreasonable ambition. A man who did someone very valuable and was well rewarded and sees no point in being any better off than he is.
I've started replying "ok, dozer" to anyone who complains about "wholeness" to me. The ennui I have with the regressives is just beyond description anymore.
I like this word to describe those responsible for us all going backwards now: regressives.
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I didn't know any of this man's views, I shouldve started using linux sooner
We all should have
honestly, do it. if your laptop gets old, no matter windows or mac, it will be dropped by windows/apple. Linux will make it last a lot longer and run it a lot smoother. Do the switch. And you can actually have your computer the way you want it, not how apple or windows want it to be.
There are many good reasons to use and learn Linux. Political ideology of its creators is very much not one of them.
They're largely professional people: their politics almost never influence what they're building in a practical way.
The (generally) accepting and tolerant culture within which it was produced is part of what made it possible for it to be what it is, but you won't really see that in the software itself.
Not a good reason for you, this is something that is only subjective lol
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