Linus Torvalds Photographed with Bill Gates - for the First Time Ever (theverge.com) 30
"The worlds of Linux and Windows finally came together in real life..." writes The Verge:
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... "No major kernel decisions were made," jokes Russinovich in a post on LinkedIn.
More from the Linux news blog Linuxiac: The man on the left is Mark Russinovich, a software engineer, author, and co-founder of Sysinternals, now CTO of Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform. He has become synonymous with deep Windows diagnostics and cloud-scale management. In the late 1990s, his suite of tools (Process Explorer, Autoruns, Procmon) revolutionized the way administrators and security professionals understood Windows internals.
The man on the far right is another living legend: Dave Cutler. Let me put it this way — he's one of the key people behind OpenVMS and the brilliant lead architect who designed Windows NT's kernel and hardware-abstraction layer — technologies that remain at the heart of every current Windows release, from server farms to laptops. So, it's no surprise that people often call him the "father of Windows NT."
More from the Linux news blog Linuxiac: The man on the left is Mark Russinovich, a software engineer, author, and co-founder of Sysinternals, now CTO of Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform. He has become synonymous with deep Windows diagnostics and cloud-scale management. In the late 1990s, his suite of tools (Process Explorer, Autoruns, Procmon) revolutionized the way administrators and security professionals understood Windows internals.
The man on the far right is another living legend: Dave Cutler. Let me put it this way — he's one of the key people behind OpenVMS and the brilliant lead architect who designed Windows NT's kernel and hardware-abstraction layer — technologies that remain at the heart of every current Windows release, from server farms to laptops. So, it's no surprise that people often call him the "father of Windows NT."
"Linux is a Cancer" (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:"Linux is a Cancer" (Score:4, Insightful)
I wonder if Bill Gates giving away his money has the same satisfaction as Linus Torvalds knowing he made the world a better place
History will show which one actually gets remembered as a good person and my bet is on Linus
Lesson I learnt... chasing money ends poorly.
JJ
Could this be the year... (Score:5, Funny)
And nearly all developers say ... (Score:1, Redundant)
Only a handful of zealots get all religious about their software. Most of us subscribe to different tools for different jobs. We respect each other as developers, whether we call Win32 or POSIX makes little difference. Build something that works, respect.
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I'll NEVER respect bill gates he is the most corrupt evil bastard in high tech, and MS Windows is a shit tier operating system
OK, you are in the religious minority.
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"Evil" is a strangely heated term to throw around. The guy has been out of the tech industry for a couple of decades now, and focuses on..... well doing good...... so, you don't have to enjoy windows, I sure don't, unix forever, but try not make your product choices your entire personality, thats a terrible way to live.
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are you sure about that? investing in the covid vaccine then shitting on it after selling your shares doesn't give a good vibe. so does spreading injections through mosquito farms
Re: And nearly all developers say ... (Score:1)
Found one
More Interestingly Torvalds and Cutler (Score:3)
Have the famous Linux kernel lead and the NT/XP/Win server kernel lead ever met.. ?
Pretty sure Cutler used to have some harsh wordscabout Unix in the past
Re:More Interestingly Torvalds and Cutler (Score:5, Informative)
They both look pretty happy (Score:4, Funny)
They both look pretty content in that picture. Makes sense... Bill G got control of most of the world's laptops and desktops, while Linus got control of most of the world's servers and smartphones. It's almost like they decided to spilt the entire IT ecosystem in two, and also decided to keep Apple around for sport.
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Not sport, but for talking down anti-trust lawsuits, as in "we are not a monopoly, Mac also does desktop".
Torvalds is a CS God. Cutler is a CS God. (Score:3)
Re: Torvalds is a CS God. Cutler is a CS God. (Score:1)
Boring
Not even a middle finger (Score:2)
Torvalds posed for the camera [arstechnica.com] when questioned about NVIDIA. I'm pretty sure I recognize one NV employee in the front row too (on the far right? I'll have to ask her next time I see her, even though it was a decade ago)
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To be fair, that was 13 years ago.
The trees cried (Score:1)
The Gates of Mordor opened up. (The door gates, not Bill.)
By the way, why does Bill look like he's wearing an Ed Sullivan body suit?
New Threats (Score:2)
Microsoft was (very deservedly) the big bad of Season 1.
Then Oracle had a few swings in Season 2, but they never had the same vibe.
Now we're in season 10 - the power scaling of the villans is getting a bit unrealistic if you ask me.
I see a Frozen joke here (Score:2)
Anybody? Anybody?
Re: Where are all the.. (Score:1)
What does that have to do with the article?
Darn! Another theory blown out of the water (Score:4, Funny)
And, all this time, I was absolutely certain Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds where the same person...
Wild guess (Score:1)
CUTLER is a thief (Score:1)
Dave Cutler STOLE VMS from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC).
When found guilty of "transferring" that tech to Microsoft for W/NT Microsoft agreed to put out Alpha/AXP chips for DEC and associated software.
Dave's no hero. He's a thief. Too many links, so google away.
Even W/NT was designed to be one letter above VMS, just like Space Oddyssey's HAL was one step away from IBM.
VMS was awesome but Dave Cutler (who helped develop v4 not v5) never understood it fully. Add in Bill Gates wanting everything WFW 3