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Linus' thread: (CW: bigotry and racism in the comments) https://social.kernel.org/notice/AWSXomDbvdxKgOxVAm (you need to scroll down, i can't seem to link to the comment in the screenshot)
I can relate to the "how the fuck is being a concerned human being extreme/poltical?" energy in the post hard.
Hate is mainstream politics now, sadly. So yes, not hating is political as well.
Political? For everyone outside of America that's just common sense.
In Canada it’s starting to become “political” since our morons are egged on by the morons down south.
FOSS is an active political statement!
Was just coming here to say that. The entire Ethos of Open Source is basically the people owning the digital means of production. So some people really not grasp that?
This fact eludes some folks.
"Wait, FOSS is political?"
"Always has been."
Linus gives exactly zero fucks about saying exactly what's on his mind. And it's almost always massively based. He's always been great about that, we don't deserve such a great mind.
Remember the time with the anti vaxxer, man was firing with all cylinders
Linus has always been political and principled, I mean he chose the GPL for a reason! Glad to see him state all of this outright though, it only makes me respect him more.
Holy shit a based Linus is not what I expected to see today. Makes me prefer Linux even more than I already did.
Linus is stellar example of "good is not nice."
He will rake you over the coals because he cares about quality and expects better from everyone.
average based Linus take.
Hard fisagree. Linux isn't political. Everyone has an opinion, it's obvious Linus would too. But I am pretty happy that his opinion is one I personally agree with. Linux can be uaed by anyone though, and nothing stops far right activists (terrorists) from making a distro, which would still be Linux. There's a heavily religious distro too, but that doesn't make Linux as a whole religious.
Does that really make it totally apolitical though?. Like obviously it's not inherently attached to a wide reaching political ideology, but it still is political in the same way that any free software is kind of political.
IMO the GPL and similar licences are inherently political, and Linus very intentionally chose to release the Linux kernel under the GPL licence rather than under BSD or a proprietary licence.
I half agree with his gun regulation stance. While ideally there would be more caution given to who owns guns that is unfortunately not the world americans have been living in the last 80 years or so. The fascists have guns, lots of them, and I'm not giving mine up while they have them.
Everything else he said is 100% based.
Well, yeah, fascists having guns is a "randomly giving guns to any moron with a pulse" problem.
This is one of the reasons why I respect him so much.
"Commies? In MY computer?" More likely than you think.
BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. It is based on a program called " xenix", which was written by Microsoft for the US government. These programs are used by hackers to break into other people's computer systems to steal credit card numbers. They may also be used to break into people's stereos to steal their music, using the "mp3" program. Torovoltos is a notorious hacker, responsible for writing many hacker programs, such as "telnet", which is used by hackers to connect to machines on the internet without using a telephone.
You should only support gun regulation if it applies to cops as well.
It makes me very happy to hear Linus say this
Incredibly sensible take on all accounts in my opinion! I share all of the same opinions, though I lack the platform to be listened too haha.
Linus is based as fuck as always. Level-headed and agreeable as always.
One great thing about about software is you don't have to agree with or care about what the creators thoughts and beliefs are, software is at the end of the day just software.
Doesn't get any less political than that.
I create software by myself and disagree. First it's very political where and for whom I choose to develop software. Second, software is always made for a purpose and the purpose can be indeed (and is) very often linked to political or social cause. E.g. a software which only purpose is to harm people, say for controlling mass destruction weapons is in my point of view a very political software
I've never been made happier by one of his rants.
All sensible points, nothing extreme, except maybe the Linus trademark super blunt delivery
comrade linus 🫡🫡
but also he’s finnish, which is communist, so he’s obviously a communist smh 🤷♀️
Mommmmmm, linus is doing a communism!!!
Did you know that linux kernel source code was leaked to the public? Go see for yourself how political it is!
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Holy fuck, I love that guy even more now. I didn't know that was possible.
This is one of the many reasons I look up to this man.
I don't see how his, very reasonable, views makes Linux itself (more?) political. What is the point of this post?
I’m also happy to discover social.kernel.org instance!!!
Common Linus W.
In my experience, people who explicitly state to be apolitical or demant non politicality happen to have worldviews which only in the best of cases fall under the label controversial.