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He also says something about Linux not being a place for ‘social warriors’, which is kind of ironic, given that Linux is basically a big ‘fuck you’ against corporations and closed source, i.e., a scoial statement. That’s what you want it to be. But Linus wants it to be a technology project not what you think it should be. Given how much beef he famously had with Nvidia, this is somewhat unexpected. Maybe because Nvidia did things that made it difficult to implement technology. I wonder whether he uses LLMs in his daily work. He does. He’s used it to make an interface for a side project. It seems you’re approaching everything from a paradigm of pro or anti capitalism and think of everyone as either an ally or an adversary. You’re the “social warrior” he’s talking about. You’re unable to focus on just the technology, everything has to be put into various political boxes. It’s really exhausting for people focused on technology to deal with this way of thinking. And it’s not productive in terms of actually implementing technology. Linus can say “go ahead and fork it” because he knows the social warriors wouldn’t be able to actually do this. They would sit around endlessly debating which hardware and network configuration passes their political purity tests and wouldn’t be able to host a fork let alone do any work on anything. To be able to implement any kind of technology you have to be able focus on the tech only and shut out everything else.