• WoodScientist@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    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?

    • driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.brEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      created one of the most popular operating systems on Earth, and then gave it away for free

      He didn’t created it alone and “then” gave it away for free. Since it’s begging Linux was free and that created a community who made it the most popular OS.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    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.

    • freddydunningkruger@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • maplebar@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Wait you mean the guy who made a free and open source operating system for everyone to share is left wing!?!?!? WHAT THE FFUUUU

    • tcrpz@programming.devEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      All it takes to be a leftist these days is to not go out of your way every day to be a raging cunt.

    • pumpkinseedoil@mander.xyzEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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).

    • Kagu@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Maybe it’s just the .world folks but yeah somehow “leftist” on this site has come to mean “left of the American center”…

  • Wisas62@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Lol to people that believe this is left. This is central. You know there is a party to support these beliefs? It’s called the libertarian party, Google it. You didn’t have to vote for someone who doesn’t represent you as a person regardless of what the Internet says!?

  • rickdg@lemmy.worldEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    In Europe, Linus is probably right of centre. Just let anyone do whatever except walk around with a gazillion firearms because that’s just insane.

    • shneancy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      nah even in Europe being trans friendly makes you at least left leaning

      we’re not many miles ahead in the societal run towards progress and acceptance, the US is just sprinting the wrong way

      • rickdg@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        What the Americans call libertarians have some minority representation in Europe and they’re tolerant of minorities. Not as good as leftists but better than conservatives.