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found this comment in the video titled Linus Torvalds "Nothing is better than C".

link for privacy-conscious users: https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=CYvJPra7Ebk


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a partial screenshot of YouTube mobile app with a thumbnail of Linus Torvalds addressing audience on the top, and comments section at the bottom.
a commenter(@Neurochrom) says, "Is that the id10t who made this horrific os that's taking over the world by being dumping price and open?[sic]".

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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 9 points 10 months ago

Maintaining Open Source without being paid by a company to do so is terrible. I made a few Open Source projects and never will I do it again. I do contribute a fix or something every once in a while if the issue really annoys me in my usage, but I will never again take any active role in an open source project.

People take your work for free and then attack you for not doing everything they ask for, equally for free. It's just not sustainable.