Just how fucking dense do you have to be in order to be surprised that a man who created one of the most popular operating systems on Earth, and then gave it away for free, might be a leftist?
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Right wingers are extremely stupid and don't really understand what the left stands for, they fall for all fox news strawman arguments and rage bait.
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There's some libertarians in the FOSS community as well, so it's not a guarantee, but yeah, generally you'll find that correlation.
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Watching Linus take a big public dump on someone who deserves it is one of life's finest guilty pleasures. It's like a Maya Angelou poem. You can tell he really cared, and meant it, and took some time to get it right.
Reading his words really slams home which side of the political spectrum truly believes in personal freedom and liberty. And it's not the side that promotes fascism and wants to implement a Christian version of Sharia law under the Ten Commandments.
Wait you mean the guy who made a free and open source operating system for everyone to share is left wing!?!?!? WHAT THE FFUUUU
I think he isn't a leftist, but just reasonable
All it takes to be a leftist these days is to not go out of your way every day to be a raging cunt.
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I see a lot of overlap from where I'm standing.
Maybe it's just the .world folks but yeah somehow "leftist" on this site has come to mean "left of the American center"...
In Europe, Linus is probably right of centre. Just let anyone do whatever except walk around with a gazillion firearms because that’s just insane.
nah even in Europe being trans friendly makes you at least left leaning
we're not many miles ahead in the societal run towards progress and acceptance, the US is just sprinting the wrong way
LGBT has always been a target.
The "good guys" still (chemically) castrated one of their greatest minds that won the war for ten, just because he happened to like dicks.
Theres a reason people wanted to reduce the victims of the Holocaust to just being Jewish and ignored all the other groups that both sides wanted to persacute.
They did the same thing this time, target LGBT to build the movement and are now expanded to other groups.
Hopefully everyone stands up while we still have the numbers, otherwise they'll keep chipping away fringe groups.
In Europe being trans friendly has fuck-all to do with your political leanings on the left-right axis. It's just USA warping the political discourse with their literally one-dimensional politics.
though i agree it should have fuck all to do with your political leaning, in reality there's a strong enough correlation that ignoring it would be foolish. As a European trans person if given the choice to out myself to either a group of people i know are left leaning vs a group of people i know are right leaning i'd pick the leftists in a heartbeat
You don't even have to be trans friendly. He never said he was friendly. You can just not care about what other people do with their lives.
if someone is not outright hostile towards me when they learn i'm trans i consider them friendly :')
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.
collaborative and free to access and use
Except GPL which is literally "either join our socialist software revolution or fuck off and make your own software".
I would associate most of these concepts with GNU more than Linux.
Richard Stallman is a hero.
Torvalds isn't half bad either
"I... I was just asking why my WiFi driver isn't working."
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 agree with every word
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