Yes, and according to Steve Ballmer (back in the day) Linux Torvalds was a terrorist. People are allowed to say stupid things.

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burkaman 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I don't think this is true, I can't even find anyone else claiming this happened.

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dspillett an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I don't remember him calling Linus a terrorist, though there were others that associated anything with a copyleft licence to be the loony left (or the commie left).

He certainly referred to both him and Linux as cancers though, that I do remember. He later changed his mind on that, and IIRC may even have publicly apologised for those statements.

	▲	burkaman an hour ago \| parent [-]
		He said Linux is a cancer, which was a stupid thing to say, but not the same as calling Linus a cancer. I say plenty of bad things about software that I would not say about the people who create it. I think Next.js is awful to use but that doesn't mean I think everyone at Vercel is an awful person, for example.

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nullsanity 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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technol0gic 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

by "say stupid things," you of course mean "tell bald-faced lies"

	▲	rl3 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The most notable one: "Developers, developers, developers!"

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jLaForest 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

People are allowed to say stupid things....and those people should be held accountable for the stupid things they say

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hsuduebc2 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Everyone who is not content with the way I do business must be a terrorist for sure. o_o