Wasn’t Linus an actual asshole back in the day. The same as Steve Jobs and even Bill Gates. Seems to be a running trend with OS makers from the early 90’s.

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Not that it is relevant. It’s cool we have Linux. Glad we can celebrate a system that just isn’t quite there yet.

The same as Steve Jobs and even Bill Gates.

In my opinion, not the same as these guys. Jobs and Gates were assholes because they got fuck you money and power, so they were assholes for being assholes’ sake. Linus was an asshole, but he usually had good reasons for acting like that, usually technical, common sense and no-nonsense driven. I kind of miss the time before he got therapy or whatever. It was amusing and cathartic to see him roasting some guys because he was right more often than not.

Glad we can celebrate a system that just isn’t quite there yet.

What are you talking about? I mean, if you mean Linux on the Desktop, sure, but nobody who uses Linux on the IT sector cares too much about that. Linux has won on the server arena for a long time already.

Someone apparently doesn’t know how Bill Gates actually got his start or how Apple started. “Money and power.”

Bill Gates snuck into a library to learn about computers.

Apple started with a group of people in a damn garage.

“He was an asshole but he had good reason.” Apparently not good enough that Linus thought it was good enough to continue being an asshole. Pat on the back to him.

“It’s won on Server Arena.” Great? Ask enterprise companies and hospitals how secure and reasonable Linux seems for their business models.

“Mobile.” Yeah this one is a joke. Linux is far from ready for the mobile world at least for phones.

“Embedded” now this one is actually a fair point.