why doesn't google hire Linus Torvalds, with Linux and Git in his resume, I wonder why Linus never got highjacked by one the bigger IT firms, Oracle, Apple, IBM

why doesn't google hire Linus Torvalds, with Linux and Git in his resume, I wonder why Linus never got highjacked by one the bigger IT firms, Oracle, Apple, IBM, Vodafone, Nokia etc ... Is Linus now considered to be priceless, is he that good you can't put a price on him! I dunno ... I just wonder I personally consider Ken Thompson to be the best programmer ever, even better than Donald Knuth (as a programmer), but both of them are old, and we know Don is busy writing books so I am less surprised to know they are not working on something big Thought I would sure love to see a general purpose programming language written, created and designed by Don Knuth.