While 'Oh sorry, I forgot LWN readers require me to do all their homework for them' comes across as a petty remark (though hardly as hateful as you try to paint it), I've read a lot worse from for example Theo who is also 'apparently a professional', and of course from countless other 'apparently professionals', in countless places beyond LWN, like right here on Hacker News (yes, really!).

Vezzy-fnord totally disregarded the tone in which Theo characterised existing solutions while painting this spender guy as some bully driven by narrow-mindedness because he came from a 'Linux bubble' and I assume therefore could not accept the brilliance of Theo's solution or something like that.

To me it seems like this spender guy is providing strong criticism against this solution from a practical perspective, and vezzy-fnord chose to paint him as a 'narrow-minded' and 'wilfully-ignorant' through his tone (again totally disregarding Theo's same tone) in order to sweep the technical criticism under the rug (don't listen to him, he is on a 'vendetta'!) .

Vezzy-fnord was commenting on the quality of LWN comments.

It's as if you do not understand that Theo did not comment on that LWN page...

>It's as if you do not understand that Theo did not comment on that LWN page...

The comments in question where in large responses to Theo's claim, which in turn was part of the article on which the comments are based.

Vezzy-fnord used this to paint LWN comment section as being populated by narrow-minded, Linux-centric people with vendetta's, totally ignoring that the comments by 'spender' were perfectly in line with the comments typically uttered by Theo, whose solution was under discussion.

And as to further underline how this was all bs from start to finish on Vezzy-fnord's part, the guy in question (spender) who was making the aggressive criticism is not some Linux zealot, he is criticizing Linux security solutions in exactly the same manner.