We need to give credit were credit is due. Torvalds deserves it, not because of all the code the he wrote, it was not that much and many others could have done

We need to give credit were credit is due. Torvalds deserves it, not because of all the code the he wrote, it was not that much and many others could have done the same, but the process that he developed was (and still is, the key). He managed to get together the hacking community AND the industry. Think about all the work involved in merging features and fixes: gazillions of patches. From this work, git was also born and again the genius in Torvalds knew that his job was done, he paved the way and promoted Junio Hamano to be its maintainer.