Not really. Linux was impressive. What you described is just normal incremental development. Even less impressive is to be responsible for one line of code of i

Not really. Linux was impressive. What you described is just normal incremental development. Even less impressive is to be responsible for one line of code of it. I don't deny it is an amazing engineering to create a machine with 10s of thousands of engineers working in one direction (mainly, increase shareholders value). But being one of those ants doing the work? Nah, not impressed.