The Microsoft Memo
Wired has a fun piece purporting to be a memo from Linus Torvalds to his boss Bill Gates in the year 2008.
Myself, I thought I was making some pretty outrageous demands. I was stunned when you agreed to accept the General Public License mandating that everything you added at the level of the new operating system would remain open. But you’ve been true to your side of the bargain, and you’ve won my respect. You never made me alter my goal, which was world domination for Linux. I’ll never forget your line: “Come on, Linus, infect the mothership.” I still believe that was the best recruiting pitch ever uttered. We both took a lot of criticism from our partisans, but look what we’ve accomplished. The world is using software that doesn’t suck! I hope you don’t think I’m being arrogant, Bill, when I suggest that some of the glory has rubbed off on you.