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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by pmelendez on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @09:57AM (#6051859)
> "Linus is not your boss."

From Dictionary.com, a boss is:

3. a person who makes decisions, exercises authority, dominates, etc.: My grandfather was the boss in his family.

So, for the people who is working on the linux kernel project, Linus is indeed their boss.

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Re:Linus on "acting professionally" by scotty79 on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @10:02PM (#6055759)
Linus exercises authority over his project. He decides which contribution to take in and which to leave out. He is a boss of linux. But not the boss of people who contibute because he has no authority over them to exercise.
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