klementineQt [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.nettolibre@hexbear.net•Linus Torvalds on Woke CommunismEnglish
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1 month agoyeah, the craziest thing about Terry Davis is that in a better world where he could’ve gotten the treatment and support he needed, he could’ve easily been in the forefront of technological progress. mf casually wrote an operating system from the ground up with just-in-time compiled C as the shell.
Even putting the sheer scale of Linux aside, the greater open source movement is literally software socialism. And open source is in literally everything. Even the overwhelming majority of proprietary software at least relies on OSS libraries.