My impression is that this has always been part of the core of his character, but he had to learn to put it into writing.

Contrast this to people who are good at producing the appearance of an upstanding character when it suits them, but being quite vindictive and poisonous behind closed doors when it doesn't.

Yeah, from my limited view point it really looks like Linus is a genuine person. He says what he thinks and there are no hidden agendas. That is very refreshing in current times.

Sad to see Linus stoop to such dishonest corporate speech.

In my eyes, this sentence by Linus is as straightforward as it gets. But if you think it's corporate lie-speak, I wonder which words you'd interpret as genuine - because there has to be a way to get something like that across if you really mean it, or we're all doomed. :)