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Him being far more influential and more important than most people in the room, and yet having trouble explaining what he does.

That's not true. There were many people in that room who were critical parts of multibillion dollar franchises. So critical that if that person fell ill the franchise would have to stop. If Linus fell ill Linux would continue relatively unchanged.



  > If Linus fell ill Linux would continue relatively unchanged.
Linux development on the other hand... Linus is still the Steve Jobs of the Linux kernel world, so far as I understand it.


The Steve Jobs, minus the tantrums, random firings, and black mock turtlenecks.

I hear he can be pretty critical though, especially if you ask him to port his work to a more "modern" language.


Minus the random firings and black mock turtlenecks. Not so much minus the tantrums.


Linus wouldn't be Linus without the tantrums and smiting.




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