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Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever (www.theverge.com)
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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 125 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Torvalds is still very active on the Linux kernel. As far as I know, he's in charge of it and makes major decisions about its direction.

Bill Gates retired from Microsoft in 2008.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 23 points 1 week ago (48 children)

Gates is still very active in his charity organization

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[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Linus still approves the changes in the kernel. His main baby for the past 15 years or so has been GIT.

[–] offspec@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

I think he maintained git at its inception for like 6 months and then passed it off to someone else, but I could be completely mistaken.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

That means there are highschool seniors who weren't even alive while Bill Gates was at Microsoft. Interns might not even know who he is.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS 👏🎸

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That was balmer though, IIRC. Crazy times

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I recently learned that Steve Ballmer is a director of and major donor to the Jewish National Fund, which supports the Israeli military and the settlers in the West Bank and around Gaza. This made me like Steve Ballmer slightly less.

https://shopisrael.com/blogs/support/does-steve-ballmer-support-israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_National_Fund

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

It was Balmer, but Gates was in the back clapping along and jumping over a chair lmao

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I'm sure if they work there they know who he is though lol but possibly I suppose