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At least he wasnโt caught promoting a browser extension that turned out to be a huge scam that stole money from both regular people and other content creators trying to earn some affiliate revenue.
He wrote a kernel that is free, widely considered as secure and paves a way for secure computer interaction among the general public. A tremendous accomplishment.
He may be abrasive and unkind but the Linux kernel has been a real positive contribution to all.
Oh yeah and his reach extends way beyond the kernel. I mean everyone knows that RMS started the GNU project and contributed so much of the operating system but it was the Linux kernel that finally got things going. When people were finally able to boot the operating system and start using it things ton off!
A lot of creators were tricked into that. The problematic part was that they realized the issue and completely went silent about the issue instead of raising awareness of the scam. Alerting about that fact would have been a great tech tip.
To play devil's advocate, LMG is a private business concerned with profit. I would be surprised if there weren't many other companies well aware of the racket that also kept their mouth shut.
This doesn't make their behaviour justifiable in any way, but it does highlight how silly this analogy is when we're comparing an open source developer of one of the largest projects I could think of to a private media group.
It's almost like comparing NBC News to Salvation Army.
I think they were not aware of the scam that screwed over users at the time, only the one that screwed themselves over
Absolutely, that may be important. LTT were only aware of the extension screwing over the creators, not that the customers were also getting screwed.
They said they found out at around the same time as all the other creators, so breaking it into a video wouldn't have mattered for anyone. The people they assumed were affected at the time already knew and were dropping the sponsorships.
Right, and we donโt know why anyone would choose to remain silent if theyโre aware of the issue, unless they were paid to sign an NDA.