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Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds by rujuladanh on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @04:01AM (#19561643)
Why would we care about Torvalds' political views at all?

Really, who cares? No, he is not a "leader" in any way outside kernel development.

Are we going to ask everyone now for their opinions on anything just because they are domain experts on something completely unrelated?

What is next? Asking (insert random famous politician) about kernel development?

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Re:25 Years Later: Interview with Linus Torvalds by reallydude on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @05:55AM (#19562087)
> It's a pity that a man with such influence has no message that he wants to spread

There's some people who think the cult of personality is a bad thing to promote and then there's people who wring their hands and cry about people who aren't using it. You can't win.

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