In my experience most people who have heard of Linus at all think he's some amazing genius who wrote the whole thing in a cave with a box of scraps. Very few re

In my experience most people who have heard of Linus at all think he's some amazing genius who wrote the whole thing in a cave with a box of scraps. Very few realize his contribution was the capstone to a much bigger project dating back to his childhood, which created his license and most of his tools for the exact purpose of doing what he did with them.