349 points

Actually, Elmo didn’t found Tesla.

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Didn’t he in fact sue the actual founders to be allowed to be called a founder?

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109 points

I thought he paid extra to be able to tell that lie.

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I believe the lawsuit was settled. I don’t really remember the details, but sounds super-Musky that that would be part of the terms of the settlement.

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7 points

Paying a Lawyer to make the others agree is kind of the same thing, right?

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18 points

Given his history, if he had to sue someone to be able to use a title, it’s probably not a legitimate title.

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7 points

I love how this could be a quote from a Crusader Kings community.

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29 points

That nickname is an insult to compassionate and intelligent muppets.

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For real tho.

I was never exposed to the show (etc.) actually & still find it terribly insulting.

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5 points

i prefer Felon Stank

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2 points

That’s an insult to felons and the concept of odors.

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3 points

phoney stark, dorkmaga, space karen.

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33 points

I asked grok and it said he did. It also said earth was cylindrical.

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11 points

Are you sure you spoke to grok? Did it mention white genocide or mechahitler?

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21 points

also how could steve jobs be visionary if he needed glasses

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His only vision was profit.
Needed glasses to count the profits in cents.

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10 points

Checkmate presbytarians

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he couldnt see that his pnet(pancreatic) cancer was a rare type, and it was slow growing compared to usual one( usually metastic by the time of diagnosis and pretty lethal). he went on all fruit diet to treat until it was too late.

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24 points

My university textbooks said he did. I was dumfounded when I saw that.

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Hopefully they didn’t charge you absurd prices for those shitty books, but i already know they did

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I hope your tuition is free then. Sounds like you could get a better education from chatgpt.

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Free at the point of service.

But that just means I’m paying indirectly via taxation. It’s still being paid for somehow.

Taxpayers are paying for lies to be spread at university level, to stroke the ego of a known Nazi and potential paedophile. Yippee…

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steve jobs sued and stole his way to apple.

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34 points

You may not like it, but this is what the peak full stack dev looks like.

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Lost Stallman…

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womansplained to death lmao

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To be fair, none of this would have happened without Stallman, and I understand the criticism. But let’s remember, there are things that he did that were very positive for computing. If it weren’t for Stallman it is doubtful that we would have a free operating system to this day.

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I see it the same way you might give a loved one an occasional ribbing for something they have an ongoing hangup about, or even once yelled about several years ago.

It sucks for him and his recognition that “Linux” is such a good name that people use it for the entire OS. But the dude is basically still a hero. Anybody who helped really get the FOSS/GNU/Linux movement going is. We have a huge amount of the tech world that runs so well on free and open software, plus it’s well beyond the critical mass where it isn’t going anywhere and will be an option permanently (barring some event that also, you know, ends civilization).

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If Stallman had his way, the entire Linux ecosystem would be in the same state as GNU Hurd. His vision, work, and activism in the days of Unix was a massive benefit to free software at large, probably forever. Now he thinks Debian isn’t free enough because it offers an optional nonfree repository.

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The criticism is pretty ridiculous. I can’t stand Stallman’s prescriptivist takes on language, but he was and is always right about the naming. I remember the people who insisted that it’s because the kernel was the most important part immediately called it Android and not Linux, then made a bunch of excuses.

Just be honest and don’t hide behind “I don’t use GNU so there!” kind of obnoxious stupidity. We say Linux because it stuck, not because the kernel is more important. Saying GNU or GNU/Linux or whatever was always a reasonable request that people rejected because they were either just too used to Linux or were actively worthless scumbag dumbfucks.

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I’ll never not upvote this.

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This is quite possibly the stupidest thing I’ve ever seen on Stallman and Linux lmao

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RMS is the Woz of the Linux world.

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Shouldn’t the last Linux image be, like, a crowd of FOSS developers?

Also, the second image should be a penguin in a tuxedo.

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I would have figured the three Linuses would have been like:

  1. Enthusiastic loud mouthed young Linus arguing with Tannenbaum.

  2. Aggressive Linus with no filter at all slapping maintainers upside the head.

  3. Aggressive Elder Linus with a personal insult filter applied still slapping maintainers upside the head.

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Stallman, ?, Linus 😉

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I laughed too hard

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