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Comment by mikece

9 hours ago

Yes, and according to Steve Ballmer (back in the day) Linux Torvalds was a terrorist. People are allowed to say stupid things.

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burkaman  8 hours ago

I don't think this is true, I can't even find anyone else claiming this happened.

  • dspillett  7 hours ago

    I don't remember him calling Linus a terrorist, though there were others that associated anything with a copyleft licence to be the loony left (or the commie left).

    He certainly referred to both him and Linux as cancers though, that I do remember. He later changed his mind on that, and IIRC may even have publicly apologised for those statements.

    • burkaman  7 hours ago

      He said Linux is a cancer, which was a stupid thing to say, but not the same as calling Linus a cancer. I say plenty of bad things about software that I would not say about the people who create it. I think Next.js is awful to use but that doesn't mean I think everyone at Vercel is an awful person, for example.

jLaForest  9 hours ago

People are allowed to say stupid things....and those people should be held accountable for the stupid things they say