I was an early linux hacker and wore a t-shirt with the phrase "Microscared" into a Starbucks in the heart of Microsoft country. Someone actually said "you have a lot of guts wearing that here".

It's crazy to think these two never met until recently.

It's also crazy that neither the most formidable tech company ever, Microsoft, nor the most popular open source OS ever, Linux, were based in Silicon Valley.

I was an early linux hacker and wore a t-shirt with the phrase "Microscared" into a Starbucks in the heart of Microsoft country. Someone actually said "you have a lot of guts wearing that here".

It's crazy to think these two never met until recently.

It's also crazy that neither the most formidable tech company ever, Microsoft, nor the most popular open source OS ever, Linux, were based in Silicon Valley.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/operating-systems/long-time-rivals-bill-gates-and-linus-torvalds-meet-for-the-first-time-have-dinner-no-major-kernel-decisions-were-made-but-maybe-next-dinner

i loved seeing this too... meta-thought provoking given MS's heavy use of linux these days.

yep, a different perspective to the question "who won?"