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)
Political? For everyone outside of America that’s just common sense.
Politics used to be something people engaged in. Now politics is the core to a lot of people’s identities, which means disagreement or debate is perceived as a personal attack and people will embrace a tremendous amount of cognitive dissonance to avoid being wrong.
Hello I’m a trans person from the UK here to tell you this is sadly not the case at all.
FOSS is an active political statement!
Holy shit a based Linus is not what I expected to see today. Makes me prefer Linux even more than I already did.
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.
Holy fuck, I love that guy even more now. I didn’t know that was possible.
I’ve never been made happier by one of his rants.
Hahahahahaha this is great
And he’s right!
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.
social.kernel.org : one should migrate to lemmy :°
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.
After being disappointed by Steve, Linus lifted my spirits.
I want to kiss Linus’ hand, and I am not gay.
comrade linus 🫡🫡
but also he’s finnish, which is communist, so he’s obviously a communist smh 🤷♀️
He’s not Finnish, he’s a Swede from Finland. Please attribute the nationality correctly.- He’s not defending communists. He just points out that ‘woke’ is a word used in a spiritual context, which doesn’t make sense with communism. The header of this thread is a clickbait. Read the article again.
EDIT: He’s actually a Swedish-speaking Finnish guy, mea culpa.
average based Linus take.
