{"id":940723,"date":"2025-06-23T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:44:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=940723"},"modified":"2025-06-23T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T05:44:20","slug":"bill-gates-meets-the-man-who-created-software-once-regarded-as-one-of-the-biggest-microsoft-enemy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/06\/23\/bill-gates-meets-the-man-who-created-software-once-regarded-as-one-of-the-biggest-microsoft-enemy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates meets the man who created software once regarded as one of the &#8216;biggest Microsoft enemy&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates and the creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, have publicly met for the first time. The two tech industry titans were seen together at a dinner hosted by Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure. Linux is a free and open-source operating system that was once regarded as one of the \u201cbiggest enemies of Microsoft.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was revealed via a LinkedIn post by Russinovich, which also included Microsoft\u2019s David Cutler. This encounter marks a significant moment, given that Linux was once considered a major competitor to Microsoft&#8217;s popularity in the software world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Gates and the creator of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, have publicly met for the first time. The two tech industry titans were seen together at a dinner hosted by Mark Russinovich, Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft Azure. Linux is a free and open-source operating system that was once regarded as one of the \u201cbiggest enemies of Microsoft.\u201d The meeting was revealed via a LinkedIn post by Russinovich, which also included Microsoft\u2019s David Cutler. This encounter marks a significant moment, given that Linux was once considered a major competitor to Microsoft&#8217;s popularity in the software world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-940723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=940723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/940723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=940723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=940723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=940723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}