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

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[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 124 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (57 children)

Torvalds is still very active on the Linux kernel. As far as I know, he's in charge of it and makes major decisions about its direction.

Bill Gates retired from Microsoft in 2008.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 2 weeks ago (48 children)

Gates is still very active in his charity organization

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