Comment by sodality2 | Hacker News Reader

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Apologies for attacking Dave's credibility on an unrelated thread, but his comments on Linux are absolutely falsehoods. He said that all Linux machines have some sort of proprietary blob Linus Torvalds put in there on EVERY release, for his own purposes. Compared to Windows, which is entirely closed source.. I just blocked his channel after that.

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/rb2xzk/dave_plummer_...

Related falsehoods about Linux's SysRq (now deleted, comments relevant):

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/rva3ui/so_before_i_g...

Related, his company's settlement for incredibly shady business practices, lying to customers that they "really needed his software, for security of course":

https://www.atg.wa.gov/news/news-releases/attorney-general-s...

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/rb2xzk/dave_plummer_...

> Not to attack Dave's credibility on an unrelated thread

Isn't that exactly what you're doing? Not saying you shouldn't; 'anything this person says should be taken with a grain of salt, or perhaps even suspicion' with reason seems like a fine point to make.

Good point, I sort of meant "apologies for attacking his credibility on an unrelated thread". Fixed

Well, this post has nothing to do with Linux though, nor Plummer's views on it, and is strictly to do with a subject he has incredible knowledge in. His credibility on-topic seems beyond question, so isn't this just off-topic griping? Hopefully we're not trying to encourage a comment culture where every time a person is involved, the thread is a list of exceptions taken in everything else they've ever done.

he does a load of performance tests too

between bare metal Windows and Linux running under a Microsoft VMM

I wonder whether he actually believes these things, or Microsoft convinced him to knowingly lie about them.

>Microsoft convinced him to knowingly lie about them

He hasn't been employed by Microsoft in a really long time.

Doesn't mean he doesn't have financial interests in them

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