Yet the kernel is one of the most successful OSS projects of all time. I'm not sure it makes your point very well.
It's almost as though software development skills aren't correlated with social skills...
We have significant, documented evidence of assholes producing world changing software.
We can’t do the same for the inverse personality type, can we?
I’d rather have amazing open source free software than the validation of a blue check mark.
Not unless you discount the idea that it could be even better software if those people hadn't been turned away...