I don't think it's honest to post this without context, and without mentioning that in the five years that passed most of these things were remedied, and indeed, some things were already remedied at the time of his writing.

Some points Armin makes are valid and remain valid for Linux-ish systems, but have been shown and refuted countless times for other operating systems; Python is not a Linux-only show. I won't re-iterate all that here.