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Oct 15, 2026, 9:28 PM@nina_kali_nina @toots maybe hes gaming the system? Getting filthy rich over what has the power to destroy his project and career if he refuses?
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Oct 15, 2026, 9:31 PM@PyrexContainer @nina_kali_nina I deeply doubt Linus Thorvalds is gaming the system like this. He's a super-upstanding citizen, his wife and family is beyond critiques, and he's got a ton of humble-gotten money in the banks, Linus won't turn cynically grubbing for some blind reason; I really think the chance of him being like that would be inexistent.
Nina Kalininanina_kali_nina@tech.lgbtOct 15, 2026, 9:33 PM@toots @PyrexContainer lately he came across as an asshole in mailing lists. And if not an asshole then just a tired disgruntled engineer who has ran out of care for the community
- Oct 15, 2026, 9:43 PM
@nina_kali_nina @PyrexContainer yeah he's "always" been kind of crude in the lkml or those places but I still think it's a larger threshold to be hopefully not seen. We'll have to hold our popcorns, but he's from Finland, and , well but I really doubt he'll go totally Darth Vader, or your favourite villain, since I don't keep up with the marvel bs, but fingers crossed.
Oct 16, 2026, 1:26 AM@nina_kali_nina @toots @PyrexContainer lately? Linus has been a savage in the mailing lists since time immemorial.