@justine
I like that quote, and I've heard it many times, but I don't actually buy it. The hating Microsoft part, I mean.
It might have been true among Linux users when that was first spoken, but I don't think it's true anymore, nor do I think Torvalds was ever motivated by a hatred of Microsoft or their methods.
Linus is a pragmatist, to a fault (or at least seems to be one to me). It was always about the code to him.
But the loving #Unix part, I agree with, and I staunchly maintain that Unix matters and is very much not dead.
And the fact that neither Unix (nor #BSD, for that matter) means much of anything to most Linux people (I'm talking about the people who are driving change in the Linux ecosystem) is a huge tragedy, to me.
The trajectory to re-make Linux into its own type of MacOS is very obvious to see, and not wholly unjustified. But it's the wrong emphasis, in my mind.
Just as #OpenBSD's single-minded emphasis on code quality and "correctness" (to the point that features that some rely on, like Bluetooth support and softdeps, are removed for the sake of code clarity) isn't a good fit for every user's needs, the corporate desire to make Linux a great data center OS or a great corporate workstation OS isn't the right approach for everyone, and the fact that those seem to be nearly the only motivating factor is really unfortunate, and dare I say, wrong-headed.
This has been an issue of culture in the Linux community [for a long time], now.
@Tionisla
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2025-07-15
