... fair enough, at one point he wrote most of the user-space utilities in Linux. Although he hasn't gotten around to the kernel, but half is better than nothin

... fair enough, at one point he wrote most of the user-space utilities in Linux. Although he hasn't gotten around to the kernel, but half is better than nothing, and a free kernel is nothing without _free_ (as in _speech_) user-space utilities to accompany it.