[coldtea]

I didn't say that "toxic = he'll produce bad code".

I said that the claim of those saying he's language is toxic is that his language poisons the Linux kernel community development.

And yet, I counter-argue, I see it doing just fine, and going from strength to strength, over the last 25 years. If there's any toxicity effect, I wont see it affecting much, if anything.

I could accept that it might have led some people who could have otherwise contributed away. But I don't see this having any substantial effect on Linux's development.

Perhaps it's even beneficial (since the outcome and results from Linux's development team is better than from any other Unix-like OSS OS, with their supposedly not toxic leaders).

If that freedom of language is all it takes to keep Linus happy, and stewarding the project as well as he has done all these decades, then so be it...