You might not like it, but it might be true; we don't actually know for sure. What we do know, is that someone with Linus' personality and character traits is

You might not like it, but it might be true; we don't actually know for sure. What we do know, is that someone with Linus' personality and character traits is the person who did get this monumental thing accomplished for the betterment of the world. Until Jimmy-never-says-anything-mean does the same, we won't have a useful counterexample to shift the evidence toward your preference.