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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

lol i read gun regulation as pro-gun.

glad to be proven wrong :)

Well said!

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.

Everything else he said is 100% based.

Common Linus W.

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

average based Linus take.

Hahahahahaha this is great

Personal is political.

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

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

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.

comrade linus 🫡🫡

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

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.

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Couldn't agree more.

Linus is just such a treat. Love the guy.

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.

Linus delivering the well-deserved beatdown as always.

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

Linus apitting facts

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

Based Linus!

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

Literally forking rn

based

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

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

based

After being disappointed by Steve, Linus lifted my spirits.

And he's right!

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

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...

I want to kiss Linus' hand, and I am not gay.

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