Steve Jobs Tried to Hire Linux Creator Linus Torvalds to Work on OS X

This came up and was discussed at length yesterday.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3741813

Even less interesting today than yesterday:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3741813

and before, when the source article was discussed http://hackerne.ws/item?id=3731600

Mr. Closed vs. Mr. Open?? It would never happen, but I admire Mr. Jobs for at least trying.

It's not 'closed' vs. 'open', it's business man vs. engineer.

Apple has a few core development projects they offer for free. Darwin and Webkit to name a few.

The root issue is: Steve Jobs would never understand why you would do something that makes no business sense. Linus would never understand why you wouldn't give something away for free if you could.