I know. It was a joke. Lol.
Most OPEN SAUCE devs never come close to this though.
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Most closed-sourced devs, either. Both groups mostly toil away in obscurity, at normal dev day-jobs, or as university students on scholarships and grants.
You only get famous, if you build something really groundbreaking, whether it's closed-sourced or open-sourced.
And a lot of (most?) open-source code actually comes from those day jobs, so our employers cross-finance the work on OS with our other stuff.
I contribute to OS codebases through my employers, as we use OS tools inhouse, or integrate them into our products.
But that still doesn't make me Linus. 😁
The closest thing Nostr has to Linus is probably Fiatjaf. It has to be some large, intellectual leap into a completely new construct, and only the protocol itself has been that innovative, so far.