> People are successful when they decide to be. Are you successful?
That is some sort of Politically correct thought where you give everybody participation trophies and everybody is successful (which means that nobody really is)
Like everything there are metrics, Linus doesn't figure in any of the polls which ask people who they admire the most.
Even those going down to #500.
People like Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Larry Ellison, Larry Page, Sergey Brin...they all figure into those standings.