Re this part, about Linus Torvalds being aggressive and insulting to his contributors: But no, it's not an efficient way to run a community. If Linux had s

Re this part, about Linus Torvalds being aggressive and insulting to his contributors: But no, it's not an efficient way to run a community. If Linux had success, then that certainly happened despite, not because of this behaviour. You have to have been utterly brilliant to invent git. I don't know enough about operating system internals to say if the same is true for Linux, but I know enough about git to say it's true for git. So Linus was brilliant enough to invent git, and is widely known to be a complete asshole to his contributors. He rarely brags about being a genius - in fact I believe I've seen him on video making modest statements about being overrated and not really that smart - but he often argues that being an asshole to his contributors is a wise and effective form of management. To me, he seems like an epoch-definingly great hacker who nonetheless has absolutely no clue what his own strengths and weaknesses are.