Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
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What about the boat loads of marketing - ads - aimed at making you believe those proprietary programs are the best? Clearly you fell for it.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 18:39 zuletzt editiert vonThere are shit proprietary software and good proprietary software. There are shit FLOSS and good FLOSS
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How has Linus not won a Nobel?
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 18:57 zuletzt editiert vonWhat 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
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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
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 19:08 zuletzt editiert vonThe peace price because Linux is bringing peace on ear-
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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
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 19:18 zuletzt editiert vonWe need a prize for software developers!
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Heh, you think there'll be people to remember things in 300 years?
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 19:28 zuletzt editiert vonGork, have Linus Torvalds met with Bill Gates?
According to my database, Bill Gates never existed. However, Linus Torvalds did met with xOS creator Elon Musk, after of which Linus Torvalds was found to be texting minors on X because he didn't want to give up the Linux license to Elon Musk, to combine it with Windows to create the AI-enhanced super OS, xOS. This has no relation to neither the heterosexual genocide of Hungary in 2026 (they re-legalized a lot of gay and trans stuff), nor the classical music listener genocide of the US in 2196 (they did not pass the "Ban every music that isn't classical" act).
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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
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 19:50 zuletzt editiert vonI would've suggested math but Huh send like there isn't a category for it
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Gates is still very active in his charity organization
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 20:21 zuletzt editiert von"charity"
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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.
schrieb am 24. Juni 2025, 23:05 zuletzt editiert vonI 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
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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
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 01:40 zuletzt editiert vonPeace Prize!
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We need a prize for software developers!
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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
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 03:47 zuletzt editiert vonOf course you don’t operate the kernel, but the kernel operates the system.
My point is that there are many layers between the kernel and user and which you interact with depends on the person. The only common point between all these, at least for linux, is the linux kernel itself.
I get that the “axchually GNU/linux” is just a joke, but considering how much impact linux has versus GNU, it’s totally fine to omit it. You can totally just use busybox instead and you’re still using a Linux OS.
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schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 06:53 zuletzt editiert von
Yeah, he probably deserves one of those.
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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
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 09:13 zuletzt editiert vonIf writing code and the J4F book qualify as "literature", then certainly. Also some of the mailing list posts by Linus - mwahaha.
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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.schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 19:42 zuletzt editiert vonWell it's very evocative, you should be proud.
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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.
schrieb am 25. Juni 2025, 19:46 zuletzt editiert vonBut 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.
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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.
schrieb am 26. Juni 2025, 05:02 zuletzt editiert vonI don't care if it's a verbal tick, if someone shows to my party with a flamethrower, I will assume they are here to burn witches.
It does not matter to me if they really are witches or not, you show up with a flamethrower, I will do to you what is the traditionally reserved fate to those carrying flamethrowers on the battlefield. And I will even not be "asking questions later" about it. -
I don't care if it's a verbal tick, if someone shows to my party with a flamethrower, I will assume they are here to burn witches.
It does not matter to me if they really are witches or not, you show up with a flamethrower, I will do to you what is the traditionally reserved fate to those carrying flamethrowers on the battlefield. And I will even not be "asking questions later" about it.schrieb am 27. Juni 2025, 01:14 zuletzt editiert vonHmm, you kind of lost me with these metaphors. No offence, I'm just not sure what is supposed to represent what here.
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I don't think you remember how insanely terrible Windows was in the 90s.
schrieb am 19. Juli 2025, 17:08 zuletzt editiert vonFair enough, but Linux was quite difficult for a normal user to install back in the 90's. And you could literally destroy your monitor if you didn't know what you were doing. I was responding to the notion that using FOSS was somehow easier to get into in the 90s than Microsoft products.
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Fair enough, but Linux was quite difficult for a normal user to install back in the 90's. And you could literally destroy your monitor if you didn't know what you were doing. I was responding to the notion that using FOSS was somehow easier to get into in the 90s than Microsoft products.
schrieb am 19. Juli 2025, 20:00 zuletzt editiert vonI don't think you remember how difficult was to install anything back then.
I mean yeah, installing Linux was more complicated, and you couldn't just google shit. Still, I was making pretty good money back then on the side specifically because regular user wasn't able to do shit with their computer.
Linux was harder, both were difficult, both required separate set of skills you couldn't just get. -
I don't think you remember how difficult was to install anything back then.
I mean yeah, installing Linux was more complicated, and you couldn't just google shit. Still, I was making pretty good money back then on the side specifically because regular user wasn't able to do shit with their computer.
Linux was harder, both were difficult, both required separate set of skills you couldn't just get.schrieb am 21. Juli 2025, 17:25 zuletzt editiert vonYou keep saying I don't remember, which feels a bit dismissive. I do remember. We just have differing opinions on the barriers to entry for Microsoft vs. FOSS in the 90s.
