Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, have surprisingly never met before. That all changed at a recent dinner hosted by Sysinternals creator Mark Russinovich.
The worlds of Linux and Windows finally came together in real life, and Dave Cutler, Microsoft technical fellow and Windows NT lead developer, was also there to witness the moment and meet Torvalds for the first time. “No major kernel decisions were made,” jokes Russinovich in a post on LinkedIn.
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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.
What category would he be eligible for?
If writing code and the J4F book qualify as “literature”, then certainly. Also some of the mailing list posts by Linus - mwahaha.
The peace price because Linux is bringing peace on ear-
Peace Prize!
I would’ve suggested math but Huh send like there isn’t a category for it
We need a prize for software developers!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award
Yeah, he probably deserves one of those.