Torvalds wrote the kernel, not the operating system. It’s a part of the GNU/Linux OS ;)
Comment on Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Top comment on that page is perfect:
One wrote their own operating system incorporating others ideas on operating systems, the other’s mom bought theirs.
whimsy@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Tja@programming.dev 20 hours ago
… or as I have taken recently to call it, GNU plus Linux.
interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
SorryQuick@lemmy.ca 16 hours ago
The kernel is the OS though.
whimsy@lemmy.zip 15 hours 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
fubarx@lemmy.world 1 day 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.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 1 day ago
Mommy was one of the higher ups at IBM. Gates got most of it just handed to him. They are not the same.
callouscomic@lemm.ee 1 day 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…
merc@sh.itjust.works 14 hours 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