Do you have any numbers of how many would-be contributers have been scared aways by him? How many, on the other hand, have been attracted by his person? And wha

Do you have any numbers of how many would-be contributers have been scared aways by him? How many, on the other hand, have been attracted by his person? And what about the 1-to-2 ratio, any proof for that? And how would all of this make the Linux kernel better? How is being nice and polite related to the quality of your code?