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re essential to their success. They are themselves at times obscured, human black boxes in a sense. “Linux is just an enabler,” the genius programmer Linus Torvalds once observed about the code language that undergirds much of the connected world. “It’s a solid base, but like all good, solid bases, it really is s

n is organized currently is that there are five core developers and around a hundred contributors to the core code. The five core developers are like Linus Torvalds of Linux. They decide what changes are made to the core code. One of the five is the lead developer, Wladimir, and one is the Chief Scientist, Gavin.