Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
    134·
    5 months ago

    Maybe I’m wrong, but isn’t Gates retired? And I have no idea if Torvalds is still active.

    But historical photo aside, isn’t this meeting a bunch of nothing?

    • floofloof@lemmy.caEnglish
      51·
      5 months ago

      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.

    • chrash0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      5 months ago

      without checking, Gates’ wealth is probably tied up in a lot of MS stock, and he could probably walk into the office and ask the intern to get him a coffee. but yeah i think mostly retired.

      Linus is still active is maintaining the Linux kernel.

      and yes, this is fluff, not some kind of summit