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the Linux company mascot
They really had trouble wrapping their minds around this, didn’t they.
I’m Operations Manager at Linux.
What?! You are doing something without a profit motive? That’s impossible. 🤯🤯🤯🤯
Not impossible, just The Most Generous Man In The World!
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He didn’t give up his fortune directly, because today he is a rich man. He just enriched with a different approach like opting to not lock the source code of his work like another guy we know well…
But I like him anyway
This man is my hero.
This man is my our
he’s our our
personally Richard Stallman is my favorite out of the two but both are amazing people, who’s impact on the world of software can not be understated.
I agree with you 100%. Stallman is the soul of free software movement, he is the the philosopher of the movement and Torvalds the body, the “tech guy”
If you want to see what the world would look like without the GPL, just look at how the BSDs are getting shanked by Apple (and many other companies too, but they’re the biggest).
If it weren’t for him, I have no idea what Linux would be today. No doubt in my mind, RMS is #1 on my list of most important software developers to have ever lived.
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Don’t Believe the Headlines
Linus is my superhero, apart from being the creator of Linux he can also give me marital recommendations
I hate that I can’t get through all the trash that has been the readers digest for the last 2 decades. Maybe my memory is tinted, but it seems like it’s not what it used to be. Maybe my perspective has shifted.
Yeah… But his real article was on page 86.
