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[News] Debian Developer's Response to Linus Torvalds Regarding Microsoft/Freedom Apathy

  • Subject: [News] Debian Developer's Response to Linus Torvalds Regarding Microsoft/Freedom Apathy
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 21:29:22 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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My view on Linus Torvaldsâ statement

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| In Torvaldsâ mind itâs not conceivable that one could care about freedom out 
| of love and not hate. Itâs not conceivable that one could stand to defend his 
| and everyone elseâs rights out of compassion, without hating the person who 
| would take them away. That is the view of an extremist.   
| 
| Itâs very unfortunate that people pay so much attention to Torvalds, as if he 
| was some kind of visionary. Reality is that heâs just a very skilled hacker 
| with delusions of grandeur and complete carelessness about ethics or 
| morality.   
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http://robertmh.wordpress.com/2009/08/05/my-view-on-linus-torvalds-statement/


Recent:

Yes Linus, Microsoft hating is a disease. And it's a pandemic

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| Torvalds seemed to express indifference to the submission which he dismissed
| as only being about device drive code. If he looks at it at all it will be
| after it has been filtered through others, and even then only out of a sense
| of âmorbid curiosityâ apparently. The code is concerned with virtualizing
| GNU/Linux as a guest in Windows. That tells you a lot about Microsoftâs
| motives. If clients canât run GNU/Linux on Hyper-V, Windowsâ virtualization
| software, it makes it more likely that they would migrate to wholly free and
| open source systems running on wholly free and open systems.
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/yes_linus_microsoft_hating_disease_and_its_pandemic
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