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If for nothing else that he now gets bragging rights over Linux

The bar can literally not go any lower

Of course it can go lower: he gets bragging rights for making the OS that the most widely deployed backdoor runs on - and judging from the linked article, it looks like he already started said bragging :-)

Ohh, now that your replied in that tone, I googled him. :)

Obviously ammuters with non CS backgrounds can't be expected to know Who-is-Who of CS history. Even if I knew him, how often people explicitly find out the author of the articl? On mobile screen?

I suppose you're right, but he's famous enough that a lot of people in the CS world recognise him by name, by initials, or by url.

Not to mention that he retired three years ago.