Mark Russinovich, Microsoft Azure's CTO, hosted a dinner where Torvalds and Gates met for the first time.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux kernel, have surprisingly never met before. That ...

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates recently met Linux creator Linus Torvalds for the first time at a dinner organized by ...

Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds met publicly for the first time at a dinner hosted by Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, marking a symbolic moment between former software rivals.

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.

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds have met for the first time ever. The Verge notes that it all happened at a dinner organised by Microsoft Azure CTO Mark ...

Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds met for the first time at a Microsoft-hosted dinner, decades after leading rival operating systems.

Photo by LinkedIn/Mark Russinovich Bill Gates and Linus Torvalds met for the first time over dinner last weekend, capturing global interest of tech enthusiasts. A photo circulating on LinkedIn ...

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.

In a historic first, Bill Gates and Linux creator Linus Torvalds met at a dinner hosted by Microsoft's Mark Russinovich, alongside David Cutler. This encounter is notable given Linux's past as a ...