submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [M] to c/libre@hexbear.net
 

It all started because he was shitting on the NY Times for being an ad-ridden mess where you have to call a human in order to cancel your subscription. Someone called NY Times woke communist propaganda and Linus went nerd rage on them.

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Linus posts "I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.  Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.  I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?"
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[–] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Ok but does he actually have the right opinions? Because the NYT is an imperialist capitalist rag. Like I would love to find out that Linus is genuinely a Communist but I would hate to find out that he's just a Liberal who calls himself a Socialist because he's confused about what the terms mean

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  • [–] [S] 25 points 2 years ago*

    He's a Finnish millionaire so he's closer to demsucc than ML but even demsuccs can shut down reactionary assholes. I don't think he would spew propaganda uncritically though like most liberals.

    Europe is a weird place politically compared to the US.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Maybe he doesn't have the time to form the correctTM opinions about everything that exists in the known universe. I just look what he's doing and has been doing for the last 3 decades: writing an open, free and secure operating system that everybody can use. Linux is IMHO the proof that something like communism can work in the real world. Nobody owns it and you thousands of people work on it from all around the world. If people can collaboratively write software together then we can theoretically do everything together. Also: our modern world wouldn't be possible without Linux. It runs everywhere. Windows is just on a tiny fraction of all computers.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Even putting the sheer scale of Linux aside, the greater open source movement is literally software socialism. And open source is in literally everything. Even the overwhelming majority of proprietary software at least relies on OSS libraries.

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