Honestly Stallman was the open source guru to look up to, if anyone ever was. He's a crazy nut and also Le Atheist but at least he has reasoned principles and argues them effectively.
Torvalds is a garden variety midwit redditor. In another place and time he would be shaming people who do not support the local High Priest or the King.
Stallman, the autist he is, opposes "they" as an epicene, but endorses "per" and "pers" as gender-neutral pronouns. He's also got proto-woke ideas on branding, in the sense that artificial or pointless divisions must be presented and accommodated. His argumentation is indeed very robust and honest, but often with a few very flawed premises.
I've got nothing personal against him, but instead cliquish SV grifters who upheld him as principled, but turned on him or went silent when he wound up in the Feminazis' cross-hairs.
Of the top of my head, Greenspun, Palmer Luckey, Brendan Eich, and Carmack are examples of successful conservative/right-libertarian engineer-entrepreneurs.
Don't meet your heroes.
He was never a hero.
Honestly Stallman was the open source guru to look up to, if anyone ever was. He's a crazy nut and also Le Atheist but at least he has reasoned principles and argues them effectively.
Torvalds is a garden variety midwit redditor. In another place and time he would be shaming people who do not support the local High Priest or the King.
Stallman, the autist he is, opposes "they" as an epicene, but endorses "per" and "pers" as gender-neutral pronouns. He's also got proto-woke ideas on branding, in the sense that artificial or pointless divisions must be presented and accommodated. His argumentation is indeed very robust and honest, but often with a few very flawed premises.
I've got nothing personal against him, but instead cliquish SV grifters who upheld him as principled, but turned on him or went silent when he wound up in the Feminazis' cross-hairs.
Of the top of my head, Greenspun, Palmer Luckey, Brendan Eich, and Carmack are examples of successful conservative/right-libertarian engineer-entrepreneurs.