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Linus Torvalds is Not in Charge Anymore, All Important Decisions Are Made by Monopolistic Corporations

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Summary: The corporate users of Linux, the kernel at least, call all the shots; they try to do the same to GNU, so ordinary users and grassroots movements are left mostly in the dark, and that's jeopardising users' basic freedoms

THE Linux Foundation (LF) and its media partners (read: paid media, puff piece factories) have long been pushing Linux to adopt Rust. We wrote about it many times before.



"This is a major regression, but it is encouraged by the same media that cheers for the bloated World Wide Web, a failed project that became all about proprietary spying by Web giants, farming people and their minds."In this age when students cannot grasp the concept of files and directories (or "folders" as Microsoft-funded media likes to put it) we're meant to think better code will come from proprietary software like GitHub and a bunch of bloated frameworks, too complex for any single person to properly understand and audit. This is a major regression, but it is encouraged by the same media that cheers for the bloated World Wide Web, a failed project that became all about proprietary spying by Web giants, farming people and their minds.

The video above concerns the public appearance of Linus Torvalds, whose appearance shows rapid deterioration in health; compare the photos to this older appearance of his (same two individuals). We focus on this Linux Foundation-funded article, especially the parts about corporate Rust, a fake 'community' that censors critics of corporations like Microsoft. These are the sorts of people who push developers towards Microsoft's monopoly and it won't end there. It seems perfectly clear to us that Torvalds is not truly in charge since they sent him to therapists as if he had committed thought-crime.

"The video above notes that the employer of Torvalds does not like copyleft; it loves Microsoft and it outsources code to Microsoft's proprietary software and monopolisation trap, which actively encourages people to violate the GPL.""Linus stated and emphasized that choosing the GPL for Linux was one of his best decisions," an associate of ours said today. "Those might have been the real words which actually got him in trouble more recently." The video above notes that the employer of Torvalds does not like copyleft; it loves Microsoft and it outsources code to Microsoft's proprietary software and monopolisation trap, which actively encourages people to violate the GPL.

Our associate recalls the role played by RMS inspiring a lot of very important projects, just like we're meant to think that Torvalds' Git is to be replaced by GitHub and Microsoft is our new overlord (they already engage in E.E.E. against Git, turning it into proprietary). "Regarding the origins and inspirations for the WWW, Wikipedia, and Creative Commons," the associate notes, "there has been a lot of revisionism or at least omission lately. RMS used to get mentioned a lot more before the last 10 years of campaigns to wipe him and the F-word from history." (F as in freedom)

"Linus [Torvalds] has consistently pointed out the advantages of C over the others. Some of the claimed advantages of Rust are not there. According to the one picture, he has aged terribly during the last year [...] "The New Stack" article makes selective quotes so it is hard to see the full context of Linus' comments about Rust. However, the one quote does show that it will start to taint the mainline kernel soon. I do not trust "The New Stack" (TNS) at all. that's one of the reasons I'd like to see the comments in their context. [...] Slashdot only has the TNS article, no video."

If we find the video, we will share and analyse further. No spin by LF-funded media operatives (we know LF is indebted not to Linux but to the corporations that control LF).

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