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Re:Valve joins the Linux Foundation by dysoco on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @09:03AM (#6846860)
Did Gabe and Gates write any substantial code? At least lately? I don't think we could relate them.
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Re:Valve joins the Linux Foundation by devcpp on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @11:15AM (#6847838)
Gabe was the 271st employee at Microsoft[0] and "was the producer on the first three releases of Windows"[1], so I suppose that, even if he hasn't contributed to the very same code as Bill Gates did, there must be an earlier employee who has. I don't estimate his Gates code number to be more than 2.

[0] http://www.giantbomb.com/gabe-newell/3040-4498/

[1] http://www.computerandvideogames.com/172835/interviews/creat...

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Re:Valve joins the Linux Foundation by dysoco on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @11:16AM (#6847849)
Oh I forgot Gabe worked at MS, in that case, yeah, it must be pretty low. Gabe worked both at Valve and MS, and both companies have submitted code to the Linux Kernel.
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Re:Valve joins the Linux Foundation by vanilla on Wednesday December 04, 2013 @11:45AM (#6848090)
Gabe was not just "release producer" at MS, he was the driving force behind windows gaming (port of Doom from DOS to windows)

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/167253-gabe-newell-made-wi...

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