A photo for history: Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds are known in person for the first time

Without shaving, with house clothes, and very smiling, Bill Gates y Linus Torvalds POST In a private dinner in which it is, without a doubt, A historical photographbecause a few minutes ago they had just known in person.

Even with opposite technological positions, it is surprising that the Windows ideologue and the creator of Linux have never coincided at any fair, journalistic debate, or convention. But it is. They have been seen in person for the first time this weekend.

In the enlarged photo there is another mythical character in the history of Windows, so let’s see how and where the surprising meeting has occurred.

History of the first photo of Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds

Dinner has taken place this weekend at the house of Mark Russinovichthe technology director (CTO) of Microsoft Azure. Interestingly, he was born in Salamanca, although he has American nationality. He is the one who does the selfie.

To the right of Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds there is another legend: Dave Cutler, the creator of Windows NT, One of the most prestigious Windows versions, which allowed Microsoft to cement its dominant position in business software and cloud.

Decades ago it is possible that this casual dinner was impossible but, precisely after the retirement of Bill Gates and, especially, of his successor, Steve Ballmer, With the arrival of Satya Nadella Microsoft’s vision about Linux and the open source, has completely changed.

Now Linux is integrated in Windows, the largest open source repository, Github, belongs to Microsoft, and the company itself has multiple open source projects underway.

Who is the worse is just Linus Torvalds, with internal rebellions in the Linux kernel due to the isolation of Russian programmers, and some problems and bugs in the free operating system.

It was the photo that was missing, and here we have it: Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds are finally known in person. Its software makes the world move literally. If Windows and Linux stop working, all technology would stop completely.

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