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Yes, and according to Steve Ballmer (back in the day) Linux Torvalds was a terrorist. People are allowed to say stupid things.
by mikece 7mo ago
Yes, and according to Steve Ballmer (back in the day) Linux Torvalds was a terrorist. People are allowed to say stupid things.
- jLaForest 7mo agoPeople are allowed to say stupid things....and those people should be held accountable for the stupid things they say
- hsuduebc2 7mo agoEveryone who is not content with the way I do business must be a terrorist for sure. o_o
- technol0gic 7mo agoby "say stupid things," you of course mean "tell bald-faced lies"
- rl3 7mo agoThe most notable one: "Developers, developers, developers!"
- burkaman 7mo agoI don't think this is true, I can't even find anyone else claiming this happened.
- nullsanity 7mo ago[dead]
- dspillett 7mo agoI 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 7mo agoHe 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.
- dspillett 7mo agoHe may not have used the word cancer with respect to individuals, I can't find any such reference in a quick search, but he certainly had harsh words to say about proponents of Linux/OSS/similar.