Shamelessly copied from a post on a Lemmy look alike site :)

  • Corngood@lemmy.ml
    144·
    8 months ago

    the Linux company mascot

    They really had trouble wrapping their minds around this, didn’t they.

    • TimeSquirrel@kbin.social
      262·
      8 months ago

      A mind molded by a lifetime of neoliberal capitalism does this. Same as when they were all looking for the “Bitcoin CEO”.

      • Ramin Honary@lemmy.mlEnglish
        125·
        8 months ago

        Exactly, the neoliberal capitalist religion causes collective brain damage. Especially at that time, since there was a frenzy of propaganda around Bill Gates and how he became the worlds richest man by selling software, in particular operating systems. So from that non-logic it follows that if you have a popular operating system you should become the worlds richest man, but if you just give it all away for free, then you gave away a fortune. It makes total sense in the completely warped, schizophrenic world view of the US neoliberal mainstream media.

    • WeLoveCastingSpellz@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      184·
      8 months ago

      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.

      • namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev
        11·
        8 months ago

        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.

  • Hjalmar@feddit.nu
    33·
    8 months ago

    That so called “company mascot” on page 1 is so cute (-:

    EDIT: the penguin, not Linus

  • Xirup@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    281·
    8 months ago

    Linus is my superhero, apart from being the creator of Linux he can also give me marital recommendations

  • Donjuanme@lemmy.world
    9·
    8 months ago

    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.