• SparrowHawk
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    9 days ago

    Title seemed to imply something awful, kinda vitriolic for no reason

    • ebolapie@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      Linus tends towards self-deprecation. I remember reading about him joking that he named git after himself.

      • mox@lemmy.sdf.org
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        9 days ago

        I think the quote was, “I’m an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git.”