Too many lords, not enough stewards

I also have to say that I feel personally offended by some statements made in the talk, even though I may agree with some points made in it too. Yes, I can get over this, but that doesn't particularly improve the taste in my mouth, so to speak.

Moreover, kernel code maintainers *are* contributors too. The majority of them actually contribute code changes, but even if they don't do that, maintaining a piece of kernel code is a significant contribution pretty much by itself, so positioning them against "contributors" as it was done in the talk doesn't appear to be fair enough.