Message from @DanielKO
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Here's the thing, whenever public schools get computers for kids: it's paid by, with taxpayer money.
Yes
Microsoft undermined a ton of projects in third world countries to bring computers with Linux.
yeah
I know one in Brazil, some in Africa.
Mandriva was going to provide cheap PCs to schools in some African countries, MS stepped in and made intel cancel their deal to provide the hardware, and provide Windows-based computers.
yeah ive seen some but not much at all about that
Stallman also is Autistic.
haha really
Uppercase "A".
I respect Linus more because he made the GNU actually useful?
I would have guess Aspergers
GNU was useful long before Linux.
Installing GNU on top of proprietary Unixes was the norm.
okay i didnt know
There's a biography, I think even freely available, you can see interviews with some of his lab coworkers and even his mom.
He's Autistic, his mom says it.
maybe shes just memeing 😄
The guy was a genius in physics, he was one of the few that took an advanced course, and survived to the end, with like 4 or 5 others only.
But he gave up because he was insecure on whether he could discover something new, and he liked computers more.
so the GCC was written my Stallman's Autism?
He tried 2 compilers beforehand. On one, the author didn't want to make it free software. The other was public domain, but it sucked.
So he went "well, I guess I'll have to create one by myself"
him explaining why GNU never had a successful kernel sounds like a huge copout
He's autistic, not a software designer.
He designed an extremely complicated kernel.
that was dumb of him
And he never wrote a kernel before.
and yet years later a simple kernel does the job
thats a long time to not learn from your mistakes
I wouldn't call Linux simple, just "dumb, but works."
Now Linus is whining about all the graphics stack being dumped into the kernel.
the kernel as "being one program" as rms describes
Linus doesnt whine he screams the fire of rage from deep inside his heart
the man is a REAL NIGGA
He rages against companies, but he whines with fellow developers.
rms seems like an excuse for himself, by comparison
but thats just personality. thats not code
Linus is just bubbled from ideologies because of the inertia of moving away from Linux.