Note that github is owned by the Microsoft, and Microsofts company agenda - and also elemental business interest - to sell vendor locked, high-level tools to their users. That users, with a set of well-defined tools, directly operate in their filesystem hierarchy, that is not what they want. So I find nothing surprising that they compare us to toilets. Because it is very obvious, "low-level commands that users don't usually need to use directly", that is about us.

Btw, since Ballmer's fall, Microsoft is not so insulting in its words, and it prefers embrace-extend-extinguish to the more direct confronation, but its goals are clearly the same. Behind the bars, the little Ballmers are still there, and they are very happy to compare us to viruses, thieves and now to toilets. I believe, this porcelain comparison is from one of them. Do not search for sense or logic, it has not - if we reduce the saying to what it wants to mean, that would be: "linux is s...". It is just formulated on a polite way.