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.
I don’t think you realise the bad things he did (and still does, like patenting everything he ‘funds’ in research) versus the “some good” things coming out of it, that’s about it I think. That’s why your comments make me feel like you excuse an execrable people "just because ‘some good’ came out of it.
BTW I had to scroll throug the whole original post, Connect (the lemmy soft) lost your answers, so if you answer to this I might not be able to respond.
Dude I have said multiple times that he is a bad person who has “cracked skulls and ruined lives.” How much clearer do I need to be?
I have excused nothing. His foundation doing some good work, which it has, has nothing to do with whether or not he is a good or bad person. I have never said it vindicates him. I never said it washes away what he’s done. I have said nothing remotely like that.
You have an ax to grind and you see red. You aren’t reading what I am actually writing.
Every dictator did “some good work”, are you thinking they are good people?
IMO your moral compass need maintenance.
No. I never said anything like that. That’s an absurd thing to say.
Are we just going to keep going back-and-forth with you keep telling me what I believe while you ignore what I actually say?
I don’t think you realise the bad things he did (and still does, like patenting everything he ‘funds’ in research) versus the “some good” things coming out of it, that’s about it I think. That’s why your comments make me feel like you excuse an execrable people "just because ‘some good’ came out of it.
BTW I had to scroll throug the whole original post, Connect (the lemmy soft) lost your answers, so if you answer to this I might not be able to respond.
Dude I have said multiple times that he is a bad person who has “cracked skulls and ruined lives.” How much clearer do I need to be?
I have excused nothing. His foundation doing some good work, which it has, has nothing to do with whether or not he is a good or bad person. I have never said it vindicates him. I never said it washes away what he’s done. I have said nothing remotely like that.
You have an ax to grind and you see red. You aren’t reading what I am actually writing.