How would technology be today if he had accepted?
Linux would stagnate and XNU would get worse.
Most likely we'd still be here but rather using BSD and things would be much more slower in terms of development. In example we'd probably be on par with 2015 Linux in 2026.
Smartphones as we know them today wouldn't have happened
>>107733136Apple was the first to make a smartphone. Android was and still is a cheap copy cat. Apple didn't need Linux to make them. If anything Blackberry was their biggest motivation to make a smartphone to win the market over.
>>107733160>Apple was the first to make a smartphone
>>107733055Most Americans would read this as a cautionary tale.
>>107733055He'd make a new kernel, better than Linux because he'd start from scratch with lessons learned from before. Whether that would matter for Macfags, probably not.The BSD derivative for macs is OK as is. The Windows NT kernel is also OK. Most of the problems of non-Linux OSs stem from bad 1st party user space software and shady corpo decisions. If Linus had accepted Jobs' offer, all that would happen is whoever was the 2nd developer in charge after Linus would take over the kernel, and things would be different, but not too different. Linus doesn't work on Git or Subsurface either, and both of those are good software. I'm sure Linus would have had made the right choice in picking his second in line if he had to step down.
>>107733055>hiring the worst programmerShould have hired Bill Gates instead
>>107733217wtf i love grok now saar
>>107733160>Apple was the first to make a smartphone.
>>107733217Has Bill Gaytes ever wrote a single line of code in his whole life?
>>107733217Bill Gates used the reverse card, retard. That means that Linus is the best programmer.
