Commentary: The world rightly lauds Linus Torvalds for Linux, but Git will arguably have a bigger impact. Linus Torvalds (l) and Dirk Hohndel (r) at the Open Source Summit Europe Image: Matt Asay Recently some neighbor kids asked me what I do for a living. “I read and write emails,” I told them. They weren’t very impressed. However, they’d likely be a bit more impressed had they heard the same thi