no i think thats different. open source as a game is diffent. he started it and it was on him to shape it however he wanted, but there is no money in that, so he is now a milliinaire and it has been decades of influence.
...i cant really say much about the details when it comes to the linus of today, but politics and also corporate management or VC funded entrepreneurship is a very different incentives beast
the world depends on linux and it has funders and they will lobby and make the rules and if there is no compliance they would probably find one way or another to fire linus or stop funding him and inviting him or do anything ... so there is a lot of power and once you are near retirement and have your life - will you risk shattering all of the convenience and make it uncomfortable and see your image attacked from every possible angle for what exactly?
its not on him imho