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Reading about FOSS philosophy, degoogling, becoming against corporations, and now a full-blown woke communist (like Linus Torvalds)

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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's strange to me that any of the things he said is controversial.

[–] spitfire@infosec.pub 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it's that controversial unless you're hardcore conservative. Realistically he just laid out the view of most of the Libertarian party. Nothing he said denotes woke or communist except for the part or him claiming to be one. I'd like to see the full context, because that woke communist comment probably wasn't directed at Linus’ views

[–] kzhe@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

The communist part reads as sarcasm because he was accused of being one