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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[–] 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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