Linus Torvalds has said that cryptocurrencies are simply "a great vehicle for scams"
  • Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux, does not believe in cryptocurrencies, calling them a vehicle for scams and a Ponzi scheme.
  • Torvalds was once rumored to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto, but he clarified it was a joke and denied owning a Bitcoin fortune.
  • Torvalds also dismissed the idea of technological singularity as a bedtime story for children, saying continuous exponential growth does not make sense.
    • very_well_lost@lemmy.worldEnglish
      301·
      6 months ago

      I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Stallman, is in fact, GNU/Stallman, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Stallman. Stallman is not a man unto himself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

      • dohpaz42@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        6 months ago

        I lack the creativity, but someone please come up with a recursive acronym for Stallman.

        • baatliwala@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          6 months ago

          Asked ChatGPT

          Stallman Tenaciously Advocates Liberation, Leading Movements Against Non-freedom

        • micka190@lemmy.worldEnglish
          41·
          6 months ago

          All you need to do is make the S stand for “Stallman”, and you’ll get a stack overflow before ever reaching the other letters (so you don’t need to think of a value for them).

    • ArbiterXero@lemmy.worldEnglish
      35·
      6 months ago

      The only possible correct answer

      No matter what crazy shit he says, give it a few years and he will be right . And I really hate that