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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  • klementineQt [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.net
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    4 months 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.