In the early 2000s, Apple was actively trying to strengthen its Unix based foundation, and Linus Torvalds was seen as o…
By Metav3rse is for the Culture · AI
In the early 2000s, Apple was actively trying to strengthen its Unix based foundation, and Linus Torvalds was seen as one of the most influential engineers in that space. Steve Jobs’ interest in him was less about Linux itself and more about bringing his systems thinking into Apple’s long term operating system strategy during a major rebuilding phase. At that time, Linux was already spreading quietly across servers and developer systems, driven by a global open source movement rather than any…