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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If Linus Torvalds came out as a pedophile tomorrow, he would be actively shunned from the community. Just saying.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

RMS did not do anything as bad as child fucking and look what happened to him.

No, I am not justifying what he did I am only saying it isn't as bad as raping a kid.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago

not my point. I'm saying the argument I was originally responding to is saying that is Torvalds came out as a pedophile then all Linux users or users of products with Linux on would be pedophiles by association.

that, I assert, is ridiculous and if I was to guess at it's motivation I would say it's certainly Islamophobia, likely xenophobia and probably racism.