kd7ota,
Agreed. It was the few who jumped him because of that statement that proved the statement true. The merest mention of a person's hardware platform of choice has been grounds for the Bungled and the Botched to roll in with their tripe.
He was merely pointing out the obvious and stating [basically] "Here's something we can all agree upon, let's discuss this together without bagging the hardware."
To the pathetic few who flew off the deep end, lay of the fscking coffee, it's making you tense.