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I have to wonder if Linux would even be remembered other than as a footnote at this time without his forceful personality being in the mix.

He probably would, because he's a fairly prodigious developer working on hard problems. He was already noteworthy long before the modern era of the Internet, simply for getting early Linux working.

Being a jerk didn't create Linux and git. Hard work did.




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