All well and good. I still don’t have a problem with the original post; the poster didn’t appear to take a position on the press release, and its posting (along with the back story you’ve provided) is informative. Awful lot of folks around here who are a little too eager to attack when they think someone is threatening their precious mindset.
Thankfully, your opinion is that of the minority. BTW, you have a certain mindset yourself.
Those who defend trolls are themselves usually trolls.
The poster is banned, probably because they were a known retread, Ie. IP trace sniff came up a match for a previous troll.