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

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How has Linus not won a Nobel?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago (5 children)

What category would he be eligible for?

  • Nobel Prize in physics
  • Nobel Prize in chemistry
  • Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine
  • Nobel Prize in literature
  • Nobel Peace Prize
  • The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 days ago

If writing code and the J4F book qualify as "literature", then certainly. Also some of the mailing list posts by Linus - mwahaha.

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

Peace Prize!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I would've suggested math but Huh send like there isn't a category for it

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

We need a prize for software developers!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

The peace price because Linux is bringing peace on ear- good heavens!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Someone might remember Bill 300 years from now as a bump on the road for Linux.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Heh, you think there'll be people to remember things in 300 years?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago

Gork, have Linus Torvalds met with Bill Gates?

According to my database, Bill Gates never existed. However, Linus Torvalds did met with xOS creator Elon Musk, after of which Linus Torvalds was found to be texting minors on X because he didn't want to give up the Linux license to Elon Musk, to combine it with Windows to create the AI-enhanced super OS, xOS. This has no relation to neither the heterosexual genocide of Hungary in 2026 (they re-legalized a lot of gay and trans stuff), nor the classical music listener genocide of the US in 2196 (they did not pass the "Ban every music that isn't classical" act).

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