Calling someone a jerk for their views on how OSS should or shouldn’t function isn’t appropriate.

It’s actually completely out of line and smacks of the very entitlement described in the piece.

Don’t agree with his views? Go make your own project and run it however you want.

Cultural poison? The truly cultured understand that a monoculture would be the real poison. There’s room for all modes of operation in OSS. Without “jerks”, there’d be no Linux and there would be nothing else of high value either.

If you want to sit around and hold hands then find a project where they do that, or maybe just take up finger painting.