Linus Torvalds & Bill Gates : linux

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is that someone's chest hair in the background?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nope .... that's pubic hair ... those people are standing on a different section of the body than what you were thinking.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Can't unsee it now. Fuck.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Someone's print failed...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Could be anyone's chest hair

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago

Pretty obvious its RMS

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Source: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/markrussinovich_i-had-the-thrill-of-a-lifetime-hosting-dinner-activity-7341857033932914691-f5Kw

"I had the thrill of a lifetime, hosting dinner for Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds and David Cutler. Linus had never met Bill, and Dave had never met Linus. No major kernel decisions were made, but maybe next dinner 😉" -- Mark Russinovich

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Mark is one of the coolest guys ever. Great books and great tools.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Thanks, I was wondering who the other guys were. Torvalds in the former enemy's lair. He's the winner in this pic.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This is really unsettling. Like seeing Tesla and Edison.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

eh Bill doesn’t really pull any levers at MS these days, and Linus already got the moral victory of the Linux kernel running on Windows and basically powering their entire cloud business.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Torvalds should be nowhere near that man.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 week ago

He looks like an older Tom Scott.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago

Best part, Linus is the youngest of the four!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago

They have aged so much. Didn't even think they would that old.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I deal with computers because if I don't, computers will deal with me.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that Donald Knuth? If so, "three guys taking a photo with Donald Knuth" might be a better title.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 week ago

(Apparently it's Dave Cutler, who wikipedia reminds me is the crazy VMS guy "known for his disdain for Unix." Apologies to both of them.)

[–] heavy 9 points 1 week ago

That's also Mark Russ on the left

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Is the guy on the left wearing a wig?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

The wig is operating the human machine it sits on

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Since the last time I saw an image of him, I've become sure that Mark has amazing hair.

[+] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean gates never joined the modern "Hey look at me, I'm getting ripped now", Watch me surf... see I'm a cool dude not just a tech nerd billionare club.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You don't think Gates has sex parties and does drugs from time to time or at one point? I mean, are you following this dude around? How do you know? This is the problem with idols. We just kind of project ourselves or our preconceived notions of what these people are.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I mean, he was an acquaintance of Epstein.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I mean only talking about his public image that he maintained. Gates kept the public image of, I'm a quiet boring nerd who's running a company and helping charities where I can. IE very different public image than zuck who hit a phase where he just publicly wanted to be seen as a ripped martial artist fighter surfer with 6 pack etc... or even Elon Musk who clearly had MAJOR work done on his hair etc...

What gates did privately agreed, who knows what the heck he was up to, but the key point is, he didn't work to advertise to the world that he was cool.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

The guy is 70, I think it's OK to let yourself go a little at that age.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago

Bill Gates looks like he could be John Oliver's dad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

All we gotta do is add Tim Cook in the photo.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Wouldn’t Wozniak be an obvious choice?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ok person vs wanker

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

I second this... Good Value Assessment.

[+] [email protected] -12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

At this point, I mean, so many people have added to both Windows and Linux that it could be argued that these people didn't even really invent these things. They invented a part of. I also think about grants, funding, and the materials used to make such things. So I guess what I'm saying is fuck both of these old dudes. Computing was going to happen either way. Windows is a military contractor. Windows has killed many poor people. No gods, no masters. Kill your idols.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

So I guess what I’m saying is fuck both of these old dudes.

Ah, the arrogance of youth. I remember it well myself.