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Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds by qlk1123 on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:01AM (#19561639)
> Why would he have any great insight on "democracy or human rights" compared the average population? Because he wrote successful software?

Linux project itself has been showing how people can collaborate so well. Obviously politics is also something that requires people to work with each other. It is hard to say if he, as a maintainer of this project, has insights of human collective behavior in general.

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Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds by AnIdiotOnTheNet on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @08:12AM (#19562673)
> Linux project itself has been showing how people can collaborate so well.

Yeah, lets just ignore thousands of years of civilization doing that long before some Finnish guy made a software.

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Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds by shawnz on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @11:49AM (#19564347)
I don't think the parent is suggesting that Linus is the only good example of a leader of a major collaborative initiative. Just that he happens to be one good example.
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