Can you though? What makes you think that you can cherry pick the intricacies of one's character and leave what remains intact? The passion that you see is like

Can you though? What makes you think that you can cherry pick the intricacies of one's character and leave what remains intact? The passion that you see is likely intertwined so deeply in what makes him tick that it's the reason we even have Linux in the first place. People are flawed, you can't expect to have the good without the bad. That's not an excuse to be a jerk, but one needs to step back and be objective about the package that the recipient of their personality critique is offering society. He's rather forthcoming about his value proposition as a person, and it can't be argued that it isn't a good one. It's extremely selfish to intentionally create controversy and put your own personal feelings ahead of what he and his team are doing. On top of that, trying to turn it into a women's rights issue and getting the Ada Initiative involved is just shameful.