The middle ground is Linus continuing to be who he is, and the corporate types can be as professional as their employers require. I strongly disagree with Sharp

The middle ground is Linus continuing to be who he is, and the corporate types can be as professional as their employers require. I strongly disagree with Sharp's premise that the entire kernel team should act professionally just because there are corporations paying kernel developers, who should somehow have elevated status because they now account for 80% of the development. The corporations are the ones who chose to play in a volunteer sandbox, and they are in essence volunteers of the project themselves; it's just their employees who aren't. That relationship is between the paid developers and their employers, not between the paid developers and the project.