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Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and the creator of Linux, Linus Torvalds, finally met in person at a friendly dinner.

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Incidentally, Jobs approached Torvalds about working for Apple around 2000. At that time, Jobs offered Torvalds a fairly high salary, but he also asked him to stop being involved in the Linux project.

This isn't the first time Torvalds has broken bread with Microsoft. He was photographed hanging around, smiling, laughing, and chatting with the Microsoft team at their booth at LinuxCon in 2016.