There was no call for that last bit. Please refrain from such insulting and inflammatory insinuations on LWN.
Regarding the current case, he has already once in these comments replied to the charge of being influenced by money in his opinions on this matter, if you care to look.
I would ask you to refrain from such comments no matter who you're replying to, but I think you owe Rob Landley much more credit than you're giving.