Linus Makes Business Week's Best Managers List

andhar writes "Linus Torvalds has made Business Week Magazine's 2004 list of Best Managers, where he finds himself in the company of luminaries such as Hector Ruiz (AMD), John Henry (Boston Red Sox) and Steven Spielberg (Dreamworks SKG). The article lauds the influence of Linux on the server market and drops the names of such heavyweights as IBM, Dell, HP and Intel as Linux supporters. Linus is quoted, calling all you kernel coders a herd of cats."

Comments

Worst: Donald Rumsfeld

[Anonymous Coward]

There are so many bad managers in the Bush whitehouse it must have been hard to find the worst.

This list is totally bogus

[eln]

There is supposedly a list of Worst Managers in this article, but I don't see my boss anywhere on the list.

Re:This list is totally bogus

[Bigby]

An non of the SCO management either.

My 2c

[SimianOverlord]

I think when Linus retires, then they'll HAVE to get an American in to do the job, because of market forces. I know for a fact that because it is said (by certain Redmond backed PR astrotrufers) that Linucks is run by a "foreign national", the influential in government procurement circles are NOT INTERESTED in Linucks. These are major players and major markets Linucks is missing out on.

We need an American, Wall-Street savvy maintainer. He doesn't even need to be a hugely good coder, after all Linus isn't either.