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Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds have apparently never met in person before, despite their pseudo-rivalry.

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[-] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Linus still approves the changes in the kernel. His main baby for the past 15 years or so has been GIT.

[-] offspec@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago

I think he maintained git at its inception for like 6 months and then passed it off to someone else, but I could be completely mistaken.

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