There really is not much similarity between Linus and Ulrich. Linus relies on his "lieutenants" to do most of the work in Linux... not only the code, but also

There really is not much similarity between Linus and Ulrich. Linus relies on his "lieutenants" to do most of the work in Linux... not only the code, but also reviewing the patches of others. Ulrich was a one-man show who would often rewrite patches rather than accept the work of someone else. Anyway, Ulrich was just wrong about a lot of things. I remember one bug that affected ARM that he tried to close because "ARM is not a real arch." He made a lot of very questionable decisions, like leaving out strlcpy and strlcat. To be fair, there is valuable stuff he did behind the scenes (like ELF TLS support and some of the dynamic linking documentation). But people (reasonably) focus on the negative things, because a negative maintainer can cause huge problems for downstream projects...