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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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I was under the impression he was still doing most of the active programming work on the kernel himself

this hasn't been the case in two or three decades

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

    This is true. But he's still a good programmer, he does understand the code that he's approving or rejecting. He's not some techbro jagoff.

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