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

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[-] shroomato@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I'm not sure that the alternatives were any better, everything was terrible back then.

[-] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 days ago

Yeah, probably not. But the idea that Windows won because of how great it was just doesn't hold up

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