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Linux Inventor Says He Doesn’t Believe in Crypto(u.today)

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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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grue@lemmy.world
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Stallman.

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very_well_lost@lemmy.world
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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.

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dohpaz42@lemmy.world
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I lack the creativity, but someone please come up with a recursive acronym for Stallman.

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micka190@lemmy.world
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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).

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baatliwala@lemmy.world
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Asked ChatGPT

Stallman Tenaciously Advocates Liberation, Leading Movements Against Non-freedom

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debil@lemmy.world
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STALLMAN: Stallman The Almighty, Living Legend… Man… Anon… Null…

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ArbiterXero@lemmy.world
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The only possible correct answer

No matter what crazy shit he says, give it a few years and he will be right . And I really hate that

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