>Earns good money >Has three kids >Has a massive house >Drives a yellow Mercedes >Is generally a fucking boss >Everyone respects him >He's never given into SJW insanity
Honourable mentions go to John Carmack, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs.
Other than Linus, RMS, who ever made Vim, C, C++ and SalentOS. God bless.
Ryder Richardson
a racist asshole is not "anything"
Owen Thompson
Just looked him up, why is he your idol?
But RMS is a fucking friendless virgin loser
Bentley Howard
>>>/tumblr/
Jonathan Lewis
Mark Zuckerberg and Steve Jobs :^)
Charles Peterson
>Just looked him up, why is he your idol?
He taught me that reading, writing, being curious, researching things on my own, and programming were important.
After reading some of his essays, I got a GED and started college.
Now in a software engineer making 6 figures
Michael Wood
RMS made free software possible. Without him, Linux kernel would be proprietary or be bought by apple. You will never see a man as happy as stallman enjoying freedom.
Andrew Evans
Linus may have been a creator, but that's about it.
Jason Stewart
LinusTechTips, dude is truly a genius.
Owen Anderson
>who ever made Vim >doesn't know about bill joy
Ethan Moore
Fair enough
>RMS made free software possible. Without him, Linux kernel would be proprietary or be bought by apple. Well clearly Linus WANTED to make Linux open source. But okay let's say that idea didn't exist so he never thought of it. Then as you say he would have just sold it to e.g. Apple and made an arse load of cash.
>You will never see a man as happy as stallman enjoying freedom. Happy? The man is a deluded, mentally ill depressive, with no friends, no wife, no nothing. Linus is happily married and has three children. Linus' genes will live on to the next generation while RMS's will (perhaps rightly so) die with his death.
In short, Linus is a fucking alpha motherfucker and RMS is a complete and utter loser.
Anthony Perez
These guys.
Robert Hughes
pre-Oculus Carmack
David Flores
>bill gates - tech genius >friend was good with computer >dad was lawyer. >tech genius
Dylan Taylor
Are you mentally deficient?
Did you even read my post?
Please point out the part in which I used the words "tech genius"?
You clearly don't understand the purpose of the thread at all
Kevin Rivera
The Woz.
Robert Nguyen
eh invented javascript and doesn't fraid of anything
Benjamin Roberts
What I value about Linus is that he appears to be a fully functional, confident human. He has lots of personality, charisma, seems balanced, has a family and other interests and hobbies apart from computers.
People like RMS for example on the other hand are in my opinion even destructive for the public perception of free software. If GNU had a more charismatic, less insanely idealistic face, that would be a major step forward. What this project needs is someone who implies that free software is actually usable and can be integrated into real life. What Stallman on the other hand implies is that free software lives in some dream land that is not compatible with other interests.
So while his work objectively has tremendous value, everything that came with, the whole idealistic bullshit and appearance is pretty much poisonous and set a direction of the free software community that I personally think is absolutely ridiculous.
Logan Rogers
RMS and Linus would be nothing without this man.
Joshua Roberts
>doesn't know about bill joy
Wrong you fucker, i know he is the one who made "Piano Man"
Josiah Nelson
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Brandon Foster
/thread
Luke Young
ALPHA L P H A
Jose Allen
this motherfucker right here
hate on him all you want but he was always right
Bentley Barnes
my cia nigga
Carter Rogers
RMS and Bill Gates are NOTHING compared to him
Evan Harris
>samefagging
Nathan Hill
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Leo Wilson
You are aware Opera has been bought by Chinese investors?
Austin Ross
>implying this proves anything
Mason Brown
>Sup Forums >reddit >gay porn
Jaxon Young
I'd rather the chinese to have my info instead of the american government
Parker Moore
Or you could use an open source browser?
Benjamin Sullivan
>Having three kids is a good thing
William James
Let's hear about the deep wisdom some virginal NEET has gathered in his 18 years of uneventful life, I'm curious.
Wyatt Martinez
>Reddit >Gay porn
>"haha look guyz I'm funny right? xD"
Adrian Morris
Triggered
Michael Rodriguez
Yeah he's my idol too. The fact that he made Linux all by himself is incedible
Benjamin Young
Love Linus for creating Gentoo Linux.
David Martinez
>But RMS is a fucking friendless virgin loser Where the fuck do you think we are?
Lucas Smith
I can't live without the linux command line. thank linus
Juan Garcia
Notch > made poorly programmed java game > overweight, depressive, balding >Sup Forumsirgin >is now richer than mine and all my friends entire extended families put together Truly the american dream
Ian Campbell
The slight GOAT. >inb4 anti C shitters
Jayden Flores
Only sane post in this entire fucking thread
Dominic Stewart
>anti C shitters
Anyone who meets this description is on the wrong god damned board.
Jonathan Scott
Is "inventing" (more like quickly bodging together) JavaScript an achievement?
Samuel Parker
All hail Dennis Ritchie
Blake Smith
Make way, make way. Plebs avert your eyes!
Eli Scott
This
Or the creator of Flappy Bird if he didnt went full beta and pulled it from the play/apple store
Joshua Perry
inventor of the floppy disc
Yoshiro Nakamatsu
he would nearly drown himself to come up with new inventions
Joshua Evans
>Chink
Into the trash
Caleb Gomez
idols.. humans are shit. if you focus long enough on a single one you find the flaws and hypocrisy, don't do it, same with labels. (linus, rms, dennis ritchie)
right now i only can see that rust/redox might solve some of the problems that were created by c/linux and thats a community efford.
a community are people you can look up, talk to and where you can follow the design decisions in an open discussion. don't mistake it for a for profit cooperation that hides its decision making process or deliberately fucks with its marketing/competitors to bind customers to its proprietary shit.
Levi Kelly
I think you misunderstand what is meant by "idol" here.
He's not a pedo. He doesn't need to use an open source browser, pfft.
Oliver Jones
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Dylan Reed
I'm not lying. I've been making 6 figures since my first job out of college. Look up software engineer salaries if you don't believe me
Brayden Miller
It wasn't until he started with GNU that RMS had contact with C. Before that, it was all PDP-10s, LISP and ITS.
Juan Foster
This is now a Dennis Ritchie appreciation thread.
James Brown
>It wasn't until he started with GNU that RMS had contact with C. Incidentally, this also explains the GNU indentation style.
Juan Evans
...except nobody cares about anything RMS did before GNU. Your point is invalid.
Alexander Diaz
Backt to tumblr, SJW nu-male
Colton Jackson
Steve Jobs can be your business idol any day, but it's inane to call him a tech guy.
Jackson Johnson
It actually was pretty funny.
Nathan Bell
OP specifically asked about tech idols, not tech guys.
Dominic Flores
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Isaac Brown
Your a fucking idiot
Hudson Taylor
The point being that he only made GNU in C to be Unix compatible because that was what was popular at the time, as he wanted to make a system that would actually be used by people. If it had been anything else that was popular, he would've done it that way instead, so he's not really "indebted" to DMR.
Grayson Gutierrez
Yes, but Steve Jobs cannot be a tech idol, since he's not a tech guy.
Jackson Mitchell
bourne again shell written by Brian Fox. > 3/10 for making me wikipedia
Samuel Reyes
More importantly, Bourne shell written by Bourne. Bash is just a free clone.
Leo Reyes
>Founder of the biggest tech company in the world >"not a tech guy"
XD
William Rogers
He worked in technology, therefore he can be a tech idol.
He can also be called a tech guy.
Jack James
I guess that since you people worship him, he can also truly and legitimately be called the Messiah, then.
Jose Bennett
linus brought freedom into tech thats why he's the only true hero
Luis Ward
The "i have no arguments left" post
Xavier Ortiz
he was Buddhist not Jewish
linus had no idea how to make money off of it, that's why jobs is better
Ayden Rivera
>ctrl+f >ballmer >0 results fuck this thread
Hudson Harris
>baww he overpriced things that makes him stupid You had to be at least something of a "tech guy" to get into the business in the 1970s, stop deluding yourself.
Ian Morris
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Brandon Bennett
Rather, it's the "your argument is stupid" post.
>he worked at a tech company, so therefore he's a tech guy I guess the janitor is a tech guy too.
Joseph Gonzalez
Bill Gates, that dude seems to be extremely relaxed. Even when the demo on stage bluescreened he kept his cool. He also kept chill when people at the Apple keynote booed. Steve Jobs insane genius and dickhead. What goes around, comes around, I learned it from him. Richard Stallman. Steve Wozniak, cool what he did, like his funny and weird attitude. He even survived a plane crash, beat that! moot. The 2 Google founders, although I always only seem to remember Larry Pages name. Larrisa Mayer, she is fucking hot. I want a hot bitch sucking on my dick with such IT knowledge. The oracle founder, he founded that company and then teached other people how to be successful. For money of course, but he is quite cool. I forgot his name but remember his face. Linus Torvalds. The guy that made Diablo one, two and then torchlight when didn't like what blizzard planned with diablo 3. The results of all his games are amazing and I admire that he didn't give up. And of course all programming language and silicon creators, these people are immensely smart people.
Nicholas Lewis
I don't know if I have any particular tech idols. Maybe Elon Musk. He's probably the ideal billionaire in my mind. Doesn't squander his wealth, and uses it to do crazy things that people without wealth can't, when those things might benefit all of mankind.
Probably the closest runner ups would be the OpenBSD devs. I don't particularly look up to them, but they're probably the only people I unreservedly trust in regards to security.
Isaiah Gutierrez
Your post doesnt even make sense anymore. You are a fucking idiot if you tech Jobs wasnt a tech guy just because "le apple is bad" meme
Landon Bell
god, I bet he has a great dadbod
Jackson White
>You had to be at least something of a "tech guy" to get into the business in the 1970s, stop deluding yourself. That's what he had the Woz for.
Nathan Robinson
Elon Musk is also a pretty cool guy, he wants to move the world in a better directions, just like the amazon founder Jeff something
Dominic Lee
Elon Musk is literally a meme.
Ryder Murphy
I think Jobs wasn't a tech guy because he never did any actual tech himself. If you challenge this, please come up with an example of something he actually did himself.
Mind you, I'm not ridiculing his business savvy, nor the importance of that role. All I'm saying is he wasn't a tech guy.
Jack Price
He may be a meme, but he's a good meme. I'd rather have people like him than the Murdoch family.
Noah White
mark zuckerberg is my tech idol because he's just so innovative!
Chase Jackson
Now that's what I call a smartwatch!
David Martinez
>jobs >getting rich by selling stuff little chinese children created