[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE-D2RtagHU[/youtube]
Steve Jobs knew how to find intelligent people for his company and in the year 2000 the CEO of Apple he tried to hire Linus Torvalds, the founder of the Linux OS operating system. Unfortunately, Torvalds refused Steve Jobs' offer and continues to develop the company that has already created an operating system that is the basis of Android OS and other small operating systems for mobile terminals or even desktops. Linux is not widely used by users, but many of the web servers that host the websites we access daily run various versions of the Linux operating system.
Torvalds has never met Bill Gates, but around 2000, when he was still working at Transmeta, he met Steve Jobs. Jobs invited him to Apple's Cupertino campus and tried to hire him. "Unix for the biggest user base: that was the pitch," says Torvalds. The condition: He'd have to drop Linux development. "He wanted me to work at Apple doing non-Linux things," he said. That was a non-starter for Torvalds. Besides, he hated Mac OS's Mach kernel.
If Steve Jobs had managed to hire Torvalds, then maybe Google's Android would no longer exist in its current version and maybe Microsoft would now be a much, much bigger company.
