Comment Re:Most influential individual economic force... (Score 1) 323
If you're claiming that Torvalds had more economic impact than Greenspan, Bernanke or Yellen, you, quite frankly are out of touch.
You are missing my point.
Torvalds and his Linux project planted a seed that otherwise might not have existed at all.
I think your history is a little revisionist. Linus didn't start from scratch. He built Linux off the work of people and institutions that came before him or were even contemporaries. He also wasn't the only one working on a free or low cost "unix like" operating system, but his system is the one that took off. If there had been no Linus and no Linux, there would surely have been something else. It might even have been better (but maybe not).