Diversity is good, but when it comes to stuff like the kernel or other system critical stuff, the color of your skin does not make you a better engineer. What d

Diversity is good, but when it comes to stuff like the kernel or other system critical stuff, the color of your skin does not make you a better engineer. What do people even mean by diversity anyway? Addition of black or brown people? If a team of all Indian engineers adds a white person to the team, does that make them less diverse? Anyway, we need to be careful about this. Sadly, when management makes a poor hiring decision under pressure to add diversity and things go sour, people end up wrongly blaming the individual. Torvalds is correct to play it safe here, because signalling for diversity ends up sending a signal to a significant portion of the free software community that the kernel development now prioritizes diversity/race/skincolor over the function and performance of the kernel. And fortunately/unfortunately, the kernel doesn't care what color skin of the hand that writes and debugs its code.