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There's no call for that here. Nothing about my comment says that I'm a shill or that I work for Microsoft. Please look again at my response and compare it to the comment that I was responding to. I answered each claim or opinion in like fashion. Should I have instead asked that person if they were Linus Torvalds?
You're right. I regret my careless barb. I wish I was able to reply to your comment as well as jbob2000 did. His point-by-point reply summarizes my understanding of reality perfectly.
And my point-by-point reply to that summarizes reality as it actually is.