How bad a boss is Linus Torvalds?

I’ve known Linus Torvalds, Linux’s inventor, for over 20 years. We’re not chums, but we like each other.
Lately, Torvalds has been getting a lot of flack for his management style. Linus doesn’t suffer fools gladly. He has one way of judging people in his business of developing the Linux kernel: How good is your code?
Nothing else matters. As Torvalds said earlier this year at the Linux.conf.au Conference, “I’m not a nice person, and I don’t care about y