This is true, but if you actually look into these "incidents" that linus and rms et. al have been involved in, instead of just reading the trashy tabloid blogs

This is true, but if you actually look into these "incidents" that linus and rms et. al have been involved in, instead of just reading the trashy tabloid blogs /about/ them, you'll find that they are not in fact, stepping outside of that basic principle.