"If the code runs, who cares that it was written by a werewolf" may get you better code, but it may also get you more werewolves. If the only thing anyone is do

"If the code runs, who cares that it was written by a werewolf" may get you better code, but it may also get you more werewolves. If the only thing anyone is doing is writing code, that probably doesn't matter, but here in the real world developers have to work together and it turns out that for some people working with werewolves is disagreeable. Which means that if you invite all the werewolves in, you'll lose the people who don't want to work with werewolves, so maybe you don't get better code after all. Which is a better tradeoff? That depends on how many werewolves you have, and whether they're Fenrir Greyback or Remus Lupin, and how many anti-werewolves you have, and whether they're actually in danger from the werewolves or just prejudiced against them, and all sorts of other complicated things. In the present instance, my own prejudices say that it sure doesn't look to me like Tim Peters is a werewolf, but unfortunately the following three situations look exactly alike from the outside: (1) Tim Peters is guilty of nothing other than talking in a way that's perfectly harmless but that some officious busybodies don't like; (2) Tim Peters has been privately accused of some genuinely awful things that are hard to prove or disprove, and the powers-that-be have gone after him for technical offences in order to avoid a messy argument about those awful things, and either (2a) he's innocent of those awful things or (2b) he actually did them.