New top story on Hacker News: Ask HN: Is Linus Torvalds a Great Man of History?

Ask HN: Is Linus Torvalds a Great Man of History?
6 by iamnotwhoiam | 4 comments on Hacker News.
Did a free version of Unix need to happen in the environment of the 1990s, and therefore, someone else would have made it without Torvalds? Or did he make it happen? Would we be using something else today? Maybe GNUHerd would have received much greater attention, or BeOS would have been open sourced?