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> I didn't know that Richard Stallman or Eric S. Raymond are abusive, toxic and misogynic meritocrats.

Sounds like you haven't read Eric Raymond's blog. Or the accounts if how Stallman treated women, or his own political talking points about how he thought pedophilia was okay.

As for Linux, we have documented instances of abuse by that project's leader going back decades. In 2018 he was called out and forced to accept accountability for it. The alternative may have been loss of stewardship of the project.

> "Unfounded meritocracy". Seriously? Who makes such people "professors"?

"Meritocracy" is like "culture fit": a fiction often used to mask discrimination based on race, gender, gender identity, or ethnic background.