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.