The fear is people's politics will become a factor rather than their ability as developers. The CoC is new so I'm still sitting back and watching, but God damn if I'm not invested in the outcome here, all my apps run on Linux, if kernel dev gets fucked I'm going to have to switch some shit around I don't want to. Also semi related I had this pulled on me once at a company I worked for, everything was great untill they suddenly pulled out an employee CoC out of nowhere and in the next few months used it to get rid of a bunch of talented Devs, the CoC was fucking weird too and they wanted people to tell them all their social media handles, even anonymous ones. I don't think Linus should be berating people publically, so some kind of CoC is a good guideline, but if people are going to start weaponozing it like they do everything I'm going to be first in line to say fuck right off.