Yes he is. It is hard to pin down why Linux is so much more successful than BSD and others. But it is not entirely an accident. And it is entirely possible that

Yes he is. It is hard to pin down why Linux is so much more successful than BSD and others. But it is not entirely an accident. And it is entirely possible that if Linux wasn't around, Windows could have been the default server OS today. We may never know how alternative universes may have played out. But we do know how things worked out in the current universe and we have Torvalds to thank for it.