What if linux was kept in a private repository to punish those he didn't agree with?
Whose point is this?
It is not the point of the free software movement as seen by the FSF, which calls the APSL 1.x non-free because it requires you to publish changes https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/historical-apsl.html , nor of the (largely similar) free software movement as seen by Debian, which has a "dissident test" that explicitly requires you have the option of keeping changes among your trusted friends (assuming you trust them not to republish, of course) https://people.debian.org/~bap/dfsg-faq.html . It is certainly not the point of the open-source movement nor the Linux Foundation, both of which are firmly supportive of companies making internal improvements and not publishing any of them.
If it is your point, I urge you to reconsider a position that focuses on individuals not publishing code instead of corporations not publishing code.
> The whole point is freedom and sharing code that transcends arbitrary human defined barriers.
I think this is both an admirable view but also a naive one. Code is built, maintained, modified, sold, bought, and used by humans, so at the end of the day code is a human endeavor, and that means you will never escape having to deal with other humans in the process of writing code. You might have more or less pleasant interactions, but (at least before the singularity) code doesn't exist outside the context of human interactions.
I've personally constantly sought ways to spend more time coding and less time dealing with people, but my efforts have only reinforced the bittersweet message that the code I write is both more effective and more useful when I engage with people more. So at some point I just embraced the human element of the craft. But that comes with managing my emotional and social energy, which also means avoiding communities I don't need to be a part of.
Throughout my life I seem to have endless arguments about this. Many people seem to have a binary view of the world (positive/negative), and many others (like me) tend to have more of a ternary view (positive/neutral/negative).
No one is punishing anyone. Not helping is neutral. It is not a punishment.
If I dislike what you do and decide to withdraw support I had been providing, I am not punishing you. I am merely disengaging with you. My position is the same as that of someone who never helped you and continues not to help you.
And of course, as another person has pointed out. When someone gives you something with the explicit permission that you do not have to give back, it is petty to complain when they don't give back.
I don’t want to deal with that...
Naturally it is not a reasonable request when there is no existing testing infrastructure yet.
Other times your conscience might feel cleaner just knowing that you aren't part of a group that does things you don't like, for example: discrimination based on race. Some big projects have partnered with programs like Outreachy, that decide who to help based on the ethnicity, gender, and sexuality of the applicant.
Would you feel comfortable working for a project that openly partners with the KKK to foster adoption of open source in the white supremacist community?. This is an extreme example, but I'm using it for the sake of the argument: Most of us wouldn't want to work for such a project, even though some people might be more malleable than others.
The meta-point is that everybody's wringing their hands over "oh no, I can't say things I want to say and also contribute to Linux", and her point is that this is not new, lots of people have experienced this for a long time.
What a wonderful world that would be.