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Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto (u.today)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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  • Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, does not believe in cryptocurrencies, calling them a vehicle for scams and a Ponzi scheme.
  • Torvalds was once rumored to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but he clarified it was a joke and denied owning a Bitcoin fortune.
  • Torvalds also dismissed the idea of technological singularity as a bedtime story for children, saying continuous exponential growth does not make sense.
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[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're refering to as Stallman, is in fact, GNU/Stallman, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Stallman. Stallman is not a man unto himself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I lack the creativity, but someone please come up with a recursive acronym for Stallman.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

STALLMAN: Stallman The Almighty, Living Legend... Man... Anon... Null...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Asked ChatGPT

Stallman Tenaciously Advocates Liberation, Leading Movements Against Non-freedom

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

All you need to do is make the S stand for "Stallman", and you'll get a stack overflow before ever reaching the other letters (so you don't need to think of a value for them).