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Comment by pyre | Hacker News Reader

  > If Linus fell ill Linux would continue relatively unchanged.

Linux development on the other hand... Linus is still the Steve Jobs of the Linux kernel world, so far as I understand it.

The Steve Jobs, minus the tantrums, random firings, and black mock turtlenecks.

I hear he can be pretty critical though, especially if you ask him to port his work to a more "modern" language.

Minus the random firings and black mock turtlenecks. Not so much minus the tantrums.

Linus wouldn't be Linus without the tantrums and smiting.