> 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.

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