Linus Torvalds -- Creator of Linux -- defends gun regulation, woke communists, womens rights AND trans rights. Linux is political!

I can relate to the "how the fuck is being a concerned human being extreme/poltical?" energy in the post hard.

Political? For everyone outside of America that's just common sense.

Linus gives exactly zero fucks about saying exactly what's on his mind. And it's almost always massively based. He's always been great about that, we don't deserve such a great mind.

FOSS is an active political statement!

I don't see how his, very reasonable, views makes Linux itself (more?) political. What is the point of this post?

Linus has always been political and principled, I mean he chose the GPL for a reason! Glad to see him state all of this outright though, it only makes me respect him more.

I half agree with his gun regulation stance. While ideally there would be more caution given to who owns guns that is unfortunately not the world americans have been living in the last 80 years or so. The fascists have guns, lots of them, and I'm not giving mine up while they have them.

THE LINUX KERNEL HAS A FEDIVERSE INSTANCE??????? :D

Hard fisagree. Linux isn't political. Everyone has an opinion, it's obvious Linus would too. But I am pretty happy that his opinion is one I personally agree with. Linux can be uaed by anyone though, and nothing stops far right activists (terrorists) from making a distro, which would still be Linux. There's a heavily religious distro too, but that doesn't make Linux as a whole religious.

Maybe because he's not "American" and comes from a country with regulations like the rest of the world, and people care when they vote to make things work.

And like most of the rest of the world, there are more than two political parties, and is not a drama show.

Holy shit a based Linus is not what I expected to see today. Makes me prefer Linux even more than I already did.

Hell yeah. I love watching this man take a stance.

Linus is just such a treat. Love the guy.

average based Linus take.

Linus is stellar example of "good is not nice."

He will rake you over the coals because he cares about quality and expects better from everyone.

I’m also happy to discover social.kernel.org instance!!!

One great thing about about software is you don't have to agree with or care about what the creators thoughts and beliefs are, software is at the end of the day just software.

Doesn't get any less political than that.

This is one of the reasons why I respect him so much.

Linus delivering the well-deserved beatdown as always.

Holy fuck, I love that guy even more now. I didn't know that was possible.

In my experience, people who explicitly state to be apolitical or demant non politicality happen to have worldviews which only in the best of cases fall under the label controversial.

comrade linus 🫡🫡

but also he’s finnish, which is communist, so he’s obviously a communist smh 🤷‍♀️

Linus is based as fuck as always. Level-headed and agreeable as always.

"Commies? In MY computer?" More likely than you think.

Incredibly sensible take on all accounts in my opinion! I share all of the same opinions, though I lack the platform to be listened too haha.

It makes me very happy to hear Linus say this

When the only thing that continues to work on you ad-filled web site is the captcha, I’m not interested in supporting your journalism any more.

Protip: You can crash self-driving cars by purposefully misclicking during Captcha checks when they ask you to identify what is a bicycle, a car, a pedestrian, etc. Keep misclicking, your are poisoning the AI with each misclick. Just stay safe on the sidewalk.

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Based Linus!

I've never been made happier by one of his rants.

Did you know that linux kernel source code was leaked to the public? Go see for yourself how political it is!

/s

This is one of the many reasons I look up to this man.

All sensible points, nothing extreme, except maybe the Linus trademark super blunt delivery

Common Linus W.

Hahahahahaha this is great

lol i read gun regulation as pro-gun.

glad to be proven wrong :)

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This is really nice to see, glad he's taking a vocal stance as opposed to ignoring everything.

After being disappointed by Steve, Linus lifted my spirits.

@juergen I don't think he implied that he actually is a communist though lol

Personal is political.

Linus apitting facts

Based but don't make Linux political

Every human opinion is essentially "political" in some way, and is even interpreted differently be country? But open source software as a technology should not be taking any stance for or against gender, guns, rights, race, etc...

That's my man :-D. Love his responses, always from the bottom of his heart.

social.kernel.org : one should migrate to lemmy :°

Couldn't agree more.

Woman right to choose, fair enough. Regulated guns, absolutely. The less guns the better. Gay people stuff, I couldn't care less. Check.

The man said it as it should be said.

I wonder where Theo stands on these ideas...

Well said!

Literally forking rn

Based af

And he's right!