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This argument is conflating the bad boss with the misattribution of the tool. You could do that for any tool throughout history. But I still fail to see how you go from "bad boss is bad because they make us misattribute tool" to "good boss is bad because he's not wallowing with me about how bad boss is bad".
As anyone who has known about him for more than a couple of years knows, Linus has a pretty solid track record of calling out stupidity. It's just virtually always stupidity that affects the kernel. If he had to stop and tell bosses at other companies how to operate, Linux never would have made it out of the 90s.