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He's among the most obvious and ridiculous shills out there in the tech world. He's usually not interesting or insightful and I flag his articles 9 out of 10 times I see them. But this is above average for him and I didn't flag it.

It could be edited to half length if you cut out the apologia, but he's brought forward some interesting points that I think are the nucleus of an interesting discussion this time. I actually sort of just wish he posted the quotes from this article without any of his ridiculous commentary.