Comment Linus Torvalds is just a guy. Cut the hype... (Score 1) 152
Linus Torvalds is just like everyone of us. He knows how to program, like most of us have some sort of niche. I'm sure there are plenty of programmers that are _better_ than he.
For instance, I've never seen him in Silicon Valley, and honestly it's a small place. He lives in Santa Clara, I live about 10 minutes north. I doubt most people have met him. Besides, he's like us, why would we want to.
He didn't change the industry. AT&T did. The industry is not using Linux, it's using Solaris, WindowsNT, and often *BSD. Linux is for poor companies, or companies that are trying to gain share holders' favor.
Linus is definately a great *person*. But that's all he is... just another programmer, like me, like the rest of you. I, in fact, honor his work, and his efforts to shape the open source community with a far superior operating system; but lives weren't saved, exceptional and superior work was not given, nor has he done anything to make him different. Bill Gates is different because he is a selfish money hoarding advocate of control; monster. Linus is a guy.
Just consider this: With all your hard work, excellent ideas, life-long devotion, and industry changing talent, have you and will you ever be recognized in a way that very few (Gates, Torvalds, Ellison, etc) get to be?
With that in thought, do you think he deserves it now?
For instance, I've never seen him in Silicon Valley, and honestly it's a small place. He lives in Santa Clara, I live about 10 minutes north. I doubt most people have met him. Besides, he's like us, why would we want to.
He didn't change the industry. AT&T did. The industry is not using Linux, it's using Solaris, WindowsNT, and often *BSD. Linux is for poor companies, or companies that are trying to gain share holders' favor.
Linus is definately a great *person*. But that's all he is... just another programmer, like me, like the rest of you. I, in fact, honor his work, and his efforts to shape the open source community with a far superior operating system; but lives weren't saved, exceptional and superior work was not given, nor has he done anything to make him different. Bill Gates is different because he is a selfish money hoarding advocate of control; monster. Linus is a guy.
Just consider this: With all your hard work, excellent ideas, life-long devotion, and industry changing talent, have you and will you ever be recognized in a way that very few (Gates, Torvalds, Ellison, etc) get to be?
With that in thought, do you think he deserves it now?
