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Aren't you guys using the economic definition of 'best' as in best = brings_in_the_most_money_per_unit_of_time_expended

• grandalf 13y ago
  They are. This would lead to the conclusion that Linus Torvalds is fairly middle of the road, etc.
  • mseebach 13y ago
    Just because Linus isn't actually selling his work directly, it doesn't follow that the output of his labour is economically worthless, it's just harder to measure.
  • nostrademons 13y ago
    Linus Torvalds made millions off the VA Linux and Redhat Linux IPOs, both of whom gifted him with decent stock grants for his role in their corporate success. He's not hurting for money, and in terms of percentiles would easily be in the top 1% among both developers and the general public.
    • grandalf 13y ago
      Fair enough, but then it also follows that the youtube founders are significantly better than Linus.
      • Dylan16807 13y ago
        There's always going to be outliers, especially if you allow such messy variables in as 'founding a business'. That doesn't do much to disprove the general metric.