Did you read the article? I don't believe the article is "personality first" at all.
There's little in there that highlights his personality aside from a throwaway comment that the author believes they're both somewhat arrogant. In fact, in all the Linus quotes in the article there's not even a single shred of arrogance.
the article does not claim that they were arrogant in this discussion. It was very much not an article of the "Linus-Torvalds-is-rude" kind but more of a comparison of visions.
In a way, Torvalds showed with git that he is a good software engineer by putting together established techniques to form an excellent "product". He did not get side-tracked by reinventing the wheel but focused on a useful feature set and a performant implementation. A very good job indeed.
Thanks for keeping up the down votes for what I point out something that is clearly in the article BUT someone decides I am stretching something ~~~
"Now, I've never had a particular liking for either of these personalities, although I've had to recognize that they're very clever individuals. Both of them have been known for occasional demonstrations of arrogance."
There's little in there that highlights his personality aside from a throwaway comment that the author believes they're both somewhat arrogant. In fact, in all the Linus quotes in the article there's not even a single shred of arrogance.