Dude, you seem to think you have a big audience :). The reason you think my posts are astonishing, misdirecting, examples of clever deceit, manipulative, snide

Dude, you seem to think you have a big audience :). The reason you think my posts are astonishing, misdirecting, examples of clever deceit, manipulative, snide etc. is because you fail to counter them properly. And as it is apparently unthinkable for you that it has to do with anything on your side, it must be my fault. But consider the below points: + Saying something is similar to another thing because they have the same shape is an argument. That is what I did when pointing to the similarities (made explicit for your benefit in my second post) between the counter-article and classic anti-Linux FUD. You can't counter that with "prove it!", because it only indicates that you can't distinguish between a discussion about an article and some query about pointers and memory objects. + It is factual that people have personal experiences, strong emotions etc., but that doesn't turn these things into factual states of affairs. + Nobody gets to decide whether their actions, opinions, choices etc. are ideological or not. That is a judgement passed by others. For example, if you want to call LT a dictator, there isn't much I can do about it. But I can at least---gently---point out that he open sourced the Linux kernel decades ago. If you want to fork it and build and OS without GNU on top of it, go ahead. If you just want to look inside and change something, go ahead. If you want to make a commerical endeavor out of it, go ahead. My point about taking sides is that you can't do any of that with Windows.