I'm glad that GE was of some assistance to someone here on FreeRepublic.
I think that if you'd take a few minutes to look through his posting history though, you'll see why he is such a reviled figure in these threads. You can look back three thousand posts and find not a single comment upon any thread that is not a thread concerning computers. Most of his comments are aimed at spreading microsoft FUD, or disparaging comments about 1) Open source, in general and Linux in particular 2) Apple, 3) IBM. You'll also find a common theme of equating anyone who uses or encourages the use of open source software to leftists or communists.
You've been a registered user here on FreeRepublic for about 6 years. Could you imagine with all that is going on in the world, that you couldn't find time to comment upon anything else but the above for quite literally years? I'm sorry, but that's the very definition of a troll. I calls them likes I sees them, and I'm tired of him dive bombing into threads and hijacking them with his crap.
He's been on several forced vacations due to the moderators, and I can tell you that these threads are much more civil and useful when he's not here. The regulars may well strongly disagree about things, but it is generally civil.
Another one of your lies. I fully support Apple, as my posting history shows, as well as any form of American Unix. International Business Machines and their foreign copy of Unix called Linux? Yes, I do expose their ties to foreign governments and socialists like Richard Stallman.
Could you imagine with all that is going on in the world, that you couldn't find time to comment upon anything else but the above for quite literally years?
I have and do post on other subjects, especially in the past, but someone has to counter all the leftist BS slung on these computer threads these days. You got away with it for a while, because most posters either don't understand the terminology or refuse to suffer the harrassment, but I've shown I can reduce you to a foul mouthed slobbermouth in just a few posts. LOL you should see yourself!
They exist. I've found him on China threads, which of course go inline with his "The Chinese can have open source so it's bad" mantra.