It also names Miguel de Icaza as a similarly important character, it was in 2000 because gnome, event considering Mono as an important technology nowadays, it's not as significative or critical as Gnome was back then.
Edit: wording.
Read the text, it is not what you think
I did read the text. It's humorous. But the question itself is no less important. And considering what happened with Torvalds' position this year, one might think it is a follow up to that question. So I think adding '(2000)' would definitely be helpful, if not just accurate.
> what happened with Torvalds' position this year
Read: He went on vacation for five weeks.
OP means appending ` (2000)` to the title as a year-published annotation, to disambiguate from current events. This is commonly done on HN.