Why good developers don't need a resume

why doesn't google hire Linus Torvalds, with Linux and Git in his resume, I wonder why Linus never got highjacked by one the bigger IT firms, Oracle, Apple, IBM, Vodafone, Nokia etc ...

Is Linus now considered to be priceless, is he that good you can't put a price on him! I dunno ... I just wonder

I personally consider Ken Thompson to be the best programmer ever, even better than Donald Knuth (as a programmer), but both of them are old, and we know Don is busy writing books so I am less surprised to know they are not working on something big

Thought I would sure love to see a general purpose programming language written, created and designed by Don Knuth.

I have to say that as a way of getting attention for his $3000-a-month internships, Seth Godin's trollish "I know this is controversial, but..." blog post challenging the desirability of every person who's ever written a resume and every employer who's ever read one has really worked.

That Seth Godin fellow must be some kind of marketing genius! He should write a book.

because developers are like the brain of the IT DNA - so a good developer can just shine by showing the portfolio of his/her skills and projects.