Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever

sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Mommy was one of the higher ups at IBM. Gates got most of it just handed to him. They are not the same.

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  • callouscomic@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But but but… my parents stories about self-made, and cheapskate, and he’s rich cause apparently he’s not frivolous, and wears sweatpants, and other dumbass lies they ate up…

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    • Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I bet my hand to the fire that Bill Gates didn’t eat avocado toast and made coffee at home and that’s why he is a billionaire today.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    No she wasn’t. She was never part of IBM at all.

    She simply knew the chairman of IBM because they both served on the United Way board of directors. She was also a lawyer, as was Gates’ dad, which is a likely reason that the contract that Bill signed with IBM was so incredibly friendly to Microsoft.

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Maxwell_Gates

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• whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Torvalds wrote the kernel, not the operating system. It’s a part of the GNU/Linux OS ;)

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  • Tja@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    … or as I have taken recently to call it, GNU plus Linux.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The kernel is the OS though.

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    • whimsy@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Is it, though? I don’t know about you, but most (if not all) of my interactions with my computer are at levels above the kernel

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      • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Then where do you draw the line?

        The vast majority of people also don’t interact with the GNU tools at all, so GNU/Linux isn’t the OS either. KDE would be, or perhaps the distro itself. I’m not sure I’d call the OS GNU/Linux/Ubuntu/KDE. At that point might as well throw in firefox, for many it’s pretty much all the interaction they have with the computer.

        Or what about the distros that don’t use the GNU coreutils? They are generally still called linux and still get to run apps made for linux, even with no traces of GNU.

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• fubarx@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know it’s fun to bash on Gates, but it’s also bullshit. Dave Cutler worked on at least two major operating systems. He’s way up there in the Hall of Fame.

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