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Herecy!
It’s not Linux, it’s something entirely unique.
When he was alive, he would be frequently banned from forums for getting into crazy arguments about esoteric code things. Also the racial slurs. A complicated but beautiful human being.
TempleOS is a fever-dream.
The entire OS is released into the Public Domain, so it's technically more free than Linux, which is quite a feat.
Kind of like the Watts Towers, it's a one-man curiosity or folly.
I mean he was a theocratic racist piece of shit but ok
Having interacted with him a few times online (if he was alive he would be on this comment thread right now, and would probably have been banned at this point) - he was severely mentally ill. I’m not sure if he had any form of political ideology that was coherent enough to be “theocratic.”
Like, when you run TempleOS, the majority of programs on there are about using random number generators to “talk to” God. There are keyboard shortcuts for this purpose. I don’t think he was fun to be around - I imagine that his parents were at the end of their rope by the time they kicked him out - but Davis spent the last ten years or so of his life completely untethered from reality.