Bill Gates, Linus Torvalds, and Dave Cutler have dinner

Sysinternals founder Mark Russinovich's after-dinner photo just flipped the nerd world into Kardashian-like levels of internet meltdown.

Russinovich posted a selfie on his Linkedin page that shows two brilliant OS programmers whose work has shaped the modern world of computing… oh, and next to them, Bill Gates.

The star OS developers in question are a slightly sheepish-looking Linus Torvalds and Dave Cutler. Next to Torvalds is Bill Gates, whose company paid for much of Cutler's late-period work and also created the market for commodity x86 hardware on which Torvalds' most famous work runs. Contrary to widely held belief, Gates never wrote an OS in his life; his programming kudos lie in the co-creation of the BASIC interpreter that was used in the MITS Altair and many other late-1970s and early-1980s micros.

We are sure that Linus Torvalds needs no introduction to readers of The Register. At 55, the ...