You're right about affordability differences and it's true some boomers don't understand that but it doesn't relate in any way to or justify age-based prejudice. Of course there's no shortage of insults toward young people as well. We should avoid it all.

By far the biggest loss of Cortana was with respect to the Windows Phone. With my Windows Phone connected to my car's Bluetooth, I would be notified by voice if I received a text message, given the opportunity to have it read to me and then given the opportunity to voice respond which it would read back to me and give me the opportunity to edit and then sent back to the originator as a text message. All without any special setup or physical contact with my phone. Then one day Microsoft killed the server side and that capability was dead. There are very few scenarios where voice is more than just a novelty, and this was one of them.

The many eyes theory makes such bugs impossible.

And, of course, Linus didn't restrict his comments to the use of C++ in the kernel. He made very broad statements about the C++ language and the programmers who use it. Despite the fact anyone with 5 years or more experience likely knew more about C++ than he did or does now.

Having said that I think that C++ would be as portable as C for any architecture that Linux is capable of running on (there are many small architectures that Linux can't run on and never will).

Of course these items had no practical value until they could be used together with something else. But the GNU libs were being used successfully long before they were used with Linux. Linux as a complete OS has been very successful but if Linux consisted only of the kernel we wouldn't be talking about it today.

Yes, we shouldn't forget that the creators of UNIX were nearly as important to the creation of Linux as Linus was (some would say more important).

It would be difficult if not impossible to evaluate a kernel independently from a complete OS, but did you or anyone you know actually attempt to test or even run the Linux kernel at the time before anyone else had contributed to it? I suspect that you want to believe that Linux had a fully working kernel before anyone else was involved but that you don't actually have any knowledge of any evidence that it was the case.

You missed the point. A kernel on it's own has no value. And the term "Linux" can refer to either the kernel or a full distro. Some Linux fans love to play that game. If someone asked "Is there an office suite for Linux?" they would never say "No, Linux is just a kernel".

You're funny.

Of course Linus wrote the first lines of code for the kernel but it was only after many others became involved, that it became something useful. That is why he made it open source - he didn't want to write it all himself and probably knew it wasn't practical to do so.

If you think SJW's can be triggered, wait until the unicorns and the rest of the imaginary creatures hear about it.

I'm sure you think that anyone who disagrees with you "lacks the tools" or has some other imagined flaws. Calling someone "godly" is obviously an opinion and thus could never be a fact.

What Linus said about C++ suggests he's not always acting confidently, but sometimes defensively. He could have confidently stated that as the leader of the Linux project he simply decided that C was a better choice. But instead he went on a rant about how terrible C++ was.

Hero worship is a dangerous thing in science and technology. It can seriously impair one's technical judgement.

What's with the Millennial fetish? The term "asshole" was used as a stronger synonym for "jerk" for many decades at least.