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.
In my experience the Foss community tends towards the "legal weed and less cops" style of libertarianism and less the "police exist to protect my right to 3 12 year old wives from the tyranny of criticism" style.
I can generally get along with the "coercion bad" libertarians better than with the "abolish the government because rules shouldn't exist" crowd.
Oh yeah, definitely. A lot of the people that pretend to be libertarians are actually fascists (see Musk, Thiel, Ellison), and it's ironic that all of these people made their fortunes building on top of FOSS stacks. And even though they owe a lot to it, they still don't understand why anyone would give away their software for free.
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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.
soon the government will be run entirely on TeslaOS
I think he isn't a leftist, but just reasonable
Maybe it's just the .world folks but yeah somehow "leftist" on this site has come to mean "left of the American center"...
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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In the USA the republicans simply are such morons currently that anything reasonable appears to be leftist.
I'm center-right in Austria but US-americans would call me a woke communist (and in many regards I'm more leftist than the democrats).
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Wait you mean the guy who made a free and open source operating system for everyone to share is left wing!?!?!? WHAT THE FFUUUU
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Linus. The hero we need. But not the hero we deserve.
He's an asshole, but god damn it, he's our asshole.
Linus is my favourite centrist <3