I know this comment doesn't particularly reflect the quality of the article, but it does have some meat to it. Steven J Vaughan-Nichols has a deep history of entirely one-sided, poorly written articles that bash Microsoft and boast Linux beyond all reasonable means. He likes to cherry-pick results many times to support his reasoning.

Since I believe the author alone affects the quality of the article, I can fully see where seeing his name automatically causes the quality to dwindle.

Thanks. I think your comment above should be posted as a disclaimer on every post he writes that makes it to HN.