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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by ari__ on Sunday October 10, 2021 @01:51AM (#28816091)
Most hackers I know write software for pretty much any other OS because of how much easier it is than writing software for Windows, not because they're uppity. Some may be ideological purists, sure, but I think you'd be very hard pressed to find a hacker that says the developer experience on Windows is easier/nicer/better than the developer experience on Linux or MacOS.
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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by trixie_ on Sunday October 10, 2021 @04:04AM (#28816672)
People who write open source windows software are looked down upon. Your typical hacker especially in the 90s/00s - Microsoft was the evil empire.
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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by sigg3 on Sunday October 10, 2021 @02:18PM (#28820702)
What do you mean _was_?

If Microsoft was a person it would be a psychopath: befriend you for economic benefits and crush you when that is the more convenient option.

It's a private company who has actively pursued monopoly by buying its way into the educational system and strongarming any competition in the OEM off the shelf OS market, literally making it damn near impossible to avoid it.

It's goddamn scary how the public sector seems to believe Windows, Word or Excel are the only professional alternatives and are necessary for society to function. Why aren't we writing in LaTeX or R on Linux? Because a very powerful market force has bought the truth and will embrace or extinguish any sane opposition.

Fuck Microsoft and fuck Bill Gates. They are evil.

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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by trixie_ on Sunday October 10, 2021 @03:04PM (#28821035)
Yes, thank you. Case in point, this is how you are looked upon by the community as a developer of open source windows software.
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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by lostmsu on Sunday October 10, 2021 @02:56AM (#28816369)
It is 50/50 for me between Carmack and Torvalds. 2/1 if you add Satoshi.
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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by simonh on Sunday October 10, 2021 @04:16AM (#28816718)
Neither of them have demonstrated any significant knowledge of the extremely sophisticated, cutting edge crypto and anonymisation tech involved.
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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by masa331 on Monday October 11, 2021 @04:32AM (#28826092)
Is it that extremely sophisticated tho? I think both of them could crack that very easily if they wanted to
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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by lostmsu on Sunday October 10, 2021 @12:58PM (#28819925)
The conversation was about hackers (presumably great) in general.
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Re:Len Sassaman and Satoshi: A cypherpunk history by atatatat on Sunday October 10, 2021 @09:59AM (#28818467)
But Linux is the most secure OS! /s
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