Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.

Is it, though? I don't know about you, but most (if not all) of my interactions with my computer are at levels above the kernel

Someone might remember Bill 300 years from now as a bump on the road for Linux.

Obviously a guy that thinks being as dishonest as it is possible to get away with is perfectly good business.

That's the secret to "earning" billions of dollars.

What about the boat loads of marketing - ads - aimed at making you believe those proprietary programs are the best? Clearly you fell for it.

How has Linus not won a Nobel?

What category would he be eligible for?

• Nobel Prize in physics
• Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• Nobel Prize in literature
• Nobel Peace Prize
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

What category would he be eligible for?

• Nobel Prize in physics
• Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• Nobel Prize in literature
• Nobel Peace Prize
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

Heh, you think there'll be people to remember things in 300 years?

Gates is still very active in his charity organization

Then where do you draw the line?

The vast majority of people also don’t interact with the GNU tools at all, so GNU/Linux isn’t the OS either. KDE would be, or perhaps the distro itself. I’m not sure I’d call the OS GNU/Linux/Ubuntu/KDE. At that point might as well throw in firefox, for many it’s pretty much all the interaction they have with the computer.

Or what about the distros that don’t use the GNU coreutils? They are generally still called linux and still get to run apps made for linux, even with no traces of GNU.

What category would he be eligible for?

• Nobel Prize in physics
• Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• Nobel Prize in literature
• Nobel Peace Prize
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

We need a prize for software developers!

I made that comment in slight jest. But anyway using non GNU OS still is consistent with my viewpoint that you don't operate the kernel per se. The kernel sits at a layer below what the user operates.

As for the argument of apps being made for Linux, it is nothing more than just a semantic shortcut to the common ground between all these independent OS

What category would he be eligible for?

• Nobel Prize in physics
• Nobel Prize in chemistry
• Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
• Nobel Prize in literature
• Nobel Peace Prize
• The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

I am flattered, however no, I just shitpost here on lemmy and have no other social media presence.
Also I use AI tools to help me write like this. I like to twist context into funny things like this but it's more of an experiment than anything serious.

Thinking freely and imagining freely in our world is considered harmful.

The guy you're answering is literally blaming Stallman for opinions in the domain of philosophy expressed in words.

There are so many fucking worse things happening very close to them every day by people far less intelligent than Stallman, yet that's fine. But if the guy who created the FOSS movement says something gross, then they and everything they stand for should apparently be shunned.

It's an excuse.

But if the guy who created the FOSS movement says something gross, then they and everything they stand for should apparently be shunned.

They might mean that, but they didn't say it. I don't think they did mean it. I think they just don't want people to forget the "problematic" aspects of someone before we go all worship mode on him.

It's like how my partner will interject--he's canadian!--if I mention some actor. Like she just doesn't want me to forget that context, but other than that, I can carry on.

Maybe they did mean that, though and I'm missing some context from somewhere else in this thread.