Linus Torvalds says…

Date Thu, 7 Apr 2005 08:32:04 -0700 (PDT)
From Linus Torvalds
Subject Re: Kernel SCM saga..

…It’s increasingly a “network” in the kernel. I’m less and less “the top”, as much as a “fairly central” person. And that is how it should be. I used to think of kernel development as a hierarchy, but I long since switched to thinking about it as a fairly arbitrary network…