{"id":15189,"date":"2025-02-17T11:33:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15189"},"modified":"2025-02-17T11:34:59","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T11:34:59","slug":"a-put-down-from-linus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15189","title":{"rendered":"A put-down from Linus"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Linux was once <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2000\/07\/31\/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism\/\">famously described as <em>Communism<\/em><\/a> by former Microsoft chief executive <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Ballmer\">Steve Ballmer<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The non-corporate, contributive and sharing nature of free and open source software and operating systems is one aspect that has always made it attractive to your &#8216;umble scribe, who comes from a family where both branches have been left-leaning for three generations and possibly longer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Linus_Torvalds\">Linus Torvalds<\/a>, the creator and chief developer of the Linux kernel, the heart of the operating system, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2017\/11\/22\/linus_torvalds_apologises_for_strong_language\/\">has a reputation for plain speaking<\/a>, to put matters politely.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Linus has responded forthrightly &#8211; but mostly politely to someone who aimed the phrase &#8220;<em>woke Communist propaganda<\/em>&#8221; in his direction via social media recently and set out his political views plainly for all to see, as shown in the following screenshot.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/02\/torvalds_woke.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"465\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15196\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/02\/torvalds_woke.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/02\/torvalds_woke-300x233.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Thank you, Linus, for your humanity, never mind the kernel. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Linux was once famously described as Communism by former Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer. The non-corporate, contributive and sharing nature of free and open source software and operating systems is one aspect that has always made it attractive to your &#8216;umble scribe, who comes from a family where both branches have been left-leaning for three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,15,34,9],"tags":[36,16,19,22,12,20,35,23],"class_list":["post-15189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-linux-and-os-matters","category-open-source-software","category-politics","category-social-media","category-tech","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-free-software","tag-language","tag-open-source","tag-politics-2","tag-social-media","tag-tech-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15189"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15199,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15189\/revisions\/15199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}