HN users are hopefully mature enough to make a distinction like that.

We did take his name out of the title, though, mainly because we usually do, but also because it's baity in this case, at least for this site.

Hacker News is a community of technologists, many working in the start-up space.

This man, his company, and the industry he represents are a bane for many start-ups (and other companies, small and large).

Such a bane, in fact, that many people, including many on this site, are working hard and expending large amounts of resources to change laws to prevent this man, his company, and their ilk from continuing to be an economic drag on our entire industry.

But never mind all that. He's got some great ideas about ovens.

Yes. That exact sentence is exactly correct.

This little subthread is a microcosm of one way the whole site regularly goes off the rails. "Wet bulb temperature shmet bulb temperature, let's all yell about patent trolling!"

Fair enough. I'm not sure how else to communicate my distaste for giving Myhrvold additional attention on this site. But I'm getting down-voted, so my opinions are not shared by other people participating in this thread.

Thanks for engaging instead of simply down-voting.

This article isn't promoting Myrvhold's work. It is a collection of well-explained facts about the flaws of current oven designs.