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Bill Gates meets the man who created software once regarded as one of the 'biggest Microsoft enemy'

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, ...
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Want to build on Bill Gates? Microsoft open-sourced the original code written by the company founder - now it's over to you

Microsoft has released 6,955 lines of BASIC assembly code from 1976 Bill Gates and Ric Weiland adapted BASIC for the MOS 6502 Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC in 1977 for $25,000 worldwide Nearly ...