I do not question the important relevance in freely developed community software, but Linus is just one of the guys who participated. I admit, his contribution is one of the most hard hitting of them all but he didn't start it. If anyone deserves the prize it should be Richard Stallman. Without him, the Linux kernel would be useless without the rest of the GNU System.
this is a step backwards in terms of the development of safe and robust super computing.
I'm curious, dose the admin have to have a
license for every machine in the cluster?