You clearly never worked in a corporate environment.

I think idea sharing is worthless, because I have never ever heard a new idea from someone else in the last two decades. Everyone thinks they are so creative, but they are all morons except perhaps a few hundred people globally. Torvalds would not be part of the few hundred people, I’d consider to be of interest. Torvalds is like the idiot that invented PHP, but just slightly more competent. Writing a kernel is so easy that his first version was literally based on a text book. FYI, by the time academics get to the point to write a text book on a topic, it’s ancient history. The guy that wrote the book even considered Linux a waste of time back then and Linux, besides being more popular now, still has nothing to offer from an academic perspective (other than as a tool for lack of having anything better).

The only thing you are sharing, is that since you do not experience life like that, that we are not on the same level intellectually.