I'd had always blamed Bill Gates for windows monopoly, though now I'm pretty sure it was the US government all along pushing it for a backdoor.
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He looks like an older Tom Scott.
Best part, Linus is the youngest of the four!
I deal with computers because if I don't, computers will deal with me.
Bill Gates looks like he could be John Oliver's dad.
They have aged so much. Didn't even think they would that old.
All we gotta do is add Tim Cook in the photo.
Wouldn’t Wozniak be an obvious choice?
"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
Thanks, I was wondering who the other guys were. Torvalds in the former enemy's lair. He's the winner in this pic.
Mark is one of the coolest guys ever. Great books and great tools.
That's also Mark Russ on the left
Is that Donald Knuth? If so, "three guys taking a photo with Donald Knuth" might be a better title.
(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.)
Is the guy on the left wearing a wig?
Since the last time I saw an image of him, I've become sure that Mark has amazing hair.
The wig is operating the human machine it sits on
Is that someone's chest hair in the background?
Someone's print failed...
Nope .... that's pubic hair ... those people are standing on a different section of the body than what you were thinking.
Can't unsee it now. Fuck.
Could be anyone's chest hair
Pretty obvious its RMS
This is really unsettling. Like seeing Tesla and Edison.
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.
@Sunshine wow bill ya really let yerself go
The guy is 70, I think it's OK to let yourself go a little at that age.
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.
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.
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.
I mean, he was an acquaintance of Epstein.
ok person vs wanker
I second this... Good Value Assessment.