Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Jun 2008 22:28 UTC
Linus Torvalds - a classic example of the love-it-or-hate-it type of person. Brilliant programmer, of course, and the father of one of the most extraordinary software projects in the world, but sometimes, he can be utterly arrogant any annoying, yet the other moment completely sensible and utterly spot-on in his statements. CBR listed the ten best Linus Torvalds quotes.
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2006-02-15
You raised a question I like to ask. Are you giving him credit to what you see in the current kernel we use, or the ideology or methodology he used (or both?)? I ask because I wonder how much of the code in there is written by him, and how much is written by others who deserve credit too (maybe less, maybe more)
I give him credit for a part of the kernel, though I doubt nowadays even 1/10 of Linux kernel is made by him. To me more important is the fact that he did even start the whole project. It has changed the OSS landscape a lot (though with the aid of GNU tools), it nowadays employs a large bunch of people and so forth. AFAIK there has been OSS OSes even before Linux, but Linux just happened to happen at the right time and place and give the big push.