Comments by "Anony Mousse" (@anon_y_mousse) on "People Know Gates u0026 Jobs But Why Not Linus Torvalds" video.

  1. Indeed, excellent point.
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  2. As a C programmer, the fact that few even know Dennis Ritchie's name saddens me, more so given that he's dead now. I suppose Kernighan is more well known because of the Computerphile videos. Either way, it's a shame he's not still with us.
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  3. Did you see the Professor Farnsworth meme too?
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  4.  @skia5635  Without GNU, we'd be okay, consider how many C compilers there are and BusyBox. All the BSD's that exist, how much GNU software do they use.
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  5.  @skia5635  Nope, disagree.
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  6.  @skia5635  That's not exactly true. There was plenty of open source code back then. As far as being proponents, if they hadn't been created, another would've sprung up to fill that hole.
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  7.  @skia5635  No, because there were open source proponents other than GNU even back in the 70's and 80's. Consider BASIC as an early example of an open source only language.
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  8. Having lived through that period of time I know about them, but I wouldn't expect anyone born this century to also know about them. In fact I'd be surprised if many did.
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  9. Yes, exactly! Purveyor of shiny gadgets for idjits versus creator of the best programming language ever.
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  10. I sure hope not, I really don't want RISC architectures to be the future. CISC is just better.
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  11.  @DMSBrian24  Right, so to protect people's freedom and privacy we'll mandate what they can use and remove their privacy of computing in whatever way they want without government intervention. So basically fascism.
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