Robert McMillan, Wired.com, interviews Linux creator Linus Torvalds. One interesting part concerns the first time Torvalds 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.
“I said no,” Torvalds remembers.
Makes you wonder how different things would be had he said yes.