> with nobody looking at the big picture As I understand it, this is exactly what Linus does. He's the final arbiter of what makes it in, and has a history of

> with nobody looking at the big picture As I understand it, this is exactly what Linus does. He's the final arbiter of what makes it in, and has a history of setting high level direction for how stuff should be (usually prefixed with "I'm rejecting this because").