The Linux movement is an army of volunteers, mostly unpaid. Intel is one of the world's most powerful corporations. It imbues everything about the Linux process as it has developed over the past decade. And in an era where technology is having such a massive impact on everything, it speaks to the way leadership itself must evolve. Torvalds was a college student in Helsinki, Finland, back in 1991 when his role in the project first took shape.
Leaders make decisions.
From a tiny group of people at the start, Linux development ultimately drew in a global community of programmers. People tried it out. They started out just asking for small things and then asking for larger things or doing them themselves, and none of this was very planned for. Things just happened, and it wasn't really planned. Organization The Linux development team would never fit into a corporate organizational chart.