> Should we allow us to have dick developers because the come up with great code?
Even if we're making this "the only thing that matters is how great the code is" argument, there are good arguments against allowing people to be hostile.
You never know whether the size of your developer community could be larger. If you're turning 10 expert but conflict-averse developers away for every one asshole genius, it is unlikely that your code output/quality is being maximized.
There's no shortage of people -- even people who are paid to hack on the kernel every day! -- who say that they refuse to engage with the upstream community due to the hostility they expect to receive or have received.
The key thing is that size is not the most important measure of a dev community. A larger community of low-skill low-time-commitment devs may be substantially less valuable in practical terms than a few highly skilled and highly committed devs.
There's also the question of if the people to whom you refer would change their behavior if the item they point to was removed. As we all know, what people say they will do and what people actually do often diverge.
Even if we're making this "the only thing that matters is how great the code is" argument, there are good arguments against allowing people to be hostile.
You never know whether the size of your developer community could be larger. If you're turning 10 expert but conflict-averse developers away for every one asshole genius, it is unlikely that your code output/quality is being maximized.
There's no shortage of people -- even people who are paid to hack on the kernel every day! -- who say that they refuse to engage with the upstream community due to the hostility they expect to receive or have received.