On the one hand he responded with this to the ramblings of some silly anti-vaxxer in the kernel mail list, on the other he stripped all Russian people of their maintainer role, citing sanctions and “history between Finns and Russians” as the reason
What’s the history between Finns and Russians!Complying with “international” sanctions 2 years after said sanctions, don’t worry torvalds we know youre just following orders.
It is a cool quote, but in context was said with the implication of “you call everything communism!”, rather than him genuinely claiming to be a communist.
Linus is somewhat decent, but his politics are more that of a vague succdem than anything commie, sadly.
funny penguin man non est amicus noster
In the context of this quote, he’s talking to a right winger and being facetious. The right winger tells Linus that NYTimes is ‘woke communist propaganda’ and Linus declares himself to be a ‘woke communist’ for liking to read NYTimes. If liking New York Times, makes you a communist, then yeah he’s a communist. There is no indication that he actually supports communism.
You know what? I’m gonna contribute code even harder!
