I upvoted but the current title ("Is Linus Tovalds 'evil'?") is downright horrible and I hope a mod will revert it to the original one soon.
FTA:
"It's worth noting that the maintainer of record (me) for the Linux RNG quit the project about two years ago precisely because Linus decided to include a patch from Intel to allow their unauditable RdRand to bypass the entropy pool over my strenuous objections. " -- Eugen* Leitl
Linus has close ties to Intel and has for a long time.
He may have a lot of Intel connections, but he doesn't seem to be committed to any specific vendor.
(OT: Eugen Leitl simply forwards posts from one mailing list to another, almost always without any reason for doing so, commentary, explanation, "value add", etc. He's in my kill file for that reason.)