Linus = Genius. People who take his personality first miss the man that really is more like the public persona of Steve Jobs then the actual Steve Jobs.
Did you read the article? I don't believe the article is "personality first" at all.
There's little in there that highlights his personality aside from a throwaway comment that the author believes they're both somewhat arrogant. In fact, in all the Linus quotes in the article there's not even a single shred of arrogance.
the article does not claim that they were arrogant in this discussion. It was very much not an article of the "Linus-Torvalds-is-rude" kind but more of a comparison of visions.
In a way, Torvalds showed with git that he is a good software engineer by putting together established techniques to form an excellent "product". He did not get side-tracked by reinventing the wheel but focused on a useful feature set and a performant implementation. A very good job indeed.
Thanks for keeping up the down votes for what I point out something that is clearly in the article BUT someone decides I am stretching something ~~~
"Now, I've never had a particular liking for either of these personalities, although I've had to recognize that they're very clever individuals. Both of them have been known for occasional demonstrations of arrogance."
