He is good herding cats. Sometimes you need a genius that can do incredible difficult stuff. Sometimes you need someone that is just very good and know how to avoid stupid stuff. Sometimes you need someone that is very good mixing technical and no technical decitions.
Other projects have been forked, abandoned, kidnaped by the adult supervision, lost all user due to backward incompatible changes, ... The mantainer of an open source project has no moat. Linus only onws the name, but anyone can make a fork and try to make a better job.
Other projects have been forked, abandoned, kidnaped by the adult supervision, lost all user due to backward incompatible changes, ... The mantainer of an open source project has no moat. Linus only onws the name, but anyone can make a fork and try to make a better job.