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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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Linus Torvalds interview Reader's Digest - 2001 (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 144 points 9 months ago (4 children)

the Linux company mascot

They really had trouble wrapping their minds around this, didn't they.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What?! You are doing something without a profit motive? That's impossible. 🤯🤯🤯🤯

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Not impossible, just The Most Generous Man In The World!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 9 months ago (1 children)

A mind molded by a lifetime of neoliberal capitalism does this. Same as when they were all looking for the "Bitcoin CEO".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Exactly, the neoliberal capitalist religion causes collective brain damage. Especially at that time, since there was a frenzy of propaganda around Bill Gates and how he became the worlds richest man by selling software, in particular operating systems. So from that non-logic it follows that if you have a popular operating system you should become the worlds richest man, but if you just give it all away for free, then you gave away a fortune. It makes total sense in the completely warped, schizophrenic world view of the US neoliberal mainstream media.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago

I'm Operations Manager at Linux.