Isn't this really just an ad homeniem? Would the author have the same reaction if it was made by Brewster Kahle, founder of the non-profit Internet Archive (ww

Isn't this really just an ad homeniem? Would the author have the same reaction if it was made by Brewster Kahle, founder of the non-profit Internet Archive (www.archive.org)? After all, the same points can easily be made in regard to non-profit information archiving as for profit-seeking information indexing.