Do you think Linus Torvalds has an exaggerated sense of importance?

These threads are always a bit disconcerting as people get so sensitive and personally offended by them. And invariably despite the astonishing success of Linus' leadership, we'll just throw that all aside and posit that if it were a committee of equals who treated each other with love and admiration it would be as successful.

Or maybe it would be an abject failure, which odds tell us it would have been?