Yes, Simon is a brilliant person (hi Simon!) and would be the last person on earth to do any spin. He also doesn't owe anyone anything, PuTTY was a gift from him to the world when there was no good alternative on Windows, a gift that has had an incalculably large benefit to so many people that no one should forget.
I had the pleasure to meet him in person and the guy is just so grounded and nice to interact and help you with stuff in a non-judgmental way.
Many people I know, with less than 1% of his contributions to OSS, have inflated egos and are just full of themselves, so it is refreshing to have people such as Simon in the OSS community.
