It’s fascinating how this piddly blog has so many anonymous ardent supporters with strikingly similar behavior patterns. Just fascinating.

…and wouldn’t we all like to believe (but can not) believe that.

Note: comment has been flagged for arriving from an incarnation of a known (eet), pseudonymous, forever-nymshifting, abusive Internet troll that posts from open proxies and relays around the world.

Since you evidently need to be led by the nose here, the following is what you need to say:

“I made statements that Mr. Schlesinger was attacking Richard Stallman over disagreements about Mono, rather than over Mr. Stallman’s sexist remarks at the Gran Canaria Desktop Summit, as well as suggesting that he used false names. This was wrong of me. I retract these statements unreservedly and offer Mr. Schlesinger a full apology for having made them. I will endeavor to avoid making such irresponsible statements in the future.”

if you want to settle this someplace other than inside a courtroom, that’s how you’re going to do it, Roy.

Physician, heal thyself!

This isn’t about Fink, it’s about your shoddy and libellous “reporting”, so don’t try that dodge. And don’t suck up to me with nonsense about “let’s reason together, so give me your phone number”. You want to talk, you can give me yours. Don’t try to paint defamatory statements as “editorials”, after the fact. You post one thing here and say completely the converse in IRC, making it clear that you’re duplicitous and not to be trusted. You may not enjoy what I say, but at least I have the virtue of consistency.

So, it’s up to you, Roy. You can dig in your heels if you like, but if you do, count on me to do everything in my power to get it corrected to my satisfaction. And if that means taking it out of your hide, so be it.

With the high level of ethical behavior you’ve shown to date, you want me to give you my _phone number_? You must think I’m as dumb as you act. No, I don’t need my contact information shared around with your sockpuppet pals.

By the way, I’ve seen the unedited IRC log. “Scummy man”, hm?

Why don’t you come to IRC (or give me your phone number) so that we can talk things through? The culprit in this whole thing is somehow being left off the hook (“Fink”) when two of his victims waste each other’s time arguing. It must be funny to him.

The so-called “leader of the free software movement” should not be driving people away from involvement in free software based on their gender. Do you think that’s a debateable proposition?

As much as I disagree with Stallman on this subject, I strongly believe he deserves his rights, including free speech. The debate that I speak about is us with him. Our goal is to convince him he was wrong. Imagine what if we denied people’s right to speak rather than use it as a remedial opportunity to change their thoughts, not expression. In other words, rather than gag Stallman, let’s try to persuade him. Without him speaking openly, how would we know his mistakes?

To quote myself:
>When he realized he couldn’t get out of it by wriggling, as
>he does usually, he very, very demurely shrank back from
>all his claims. As soon as real life barges in on his
>make-belief, virtual, paranoid world, he is just scared.

If you want me to retract statements that are not correct, please let me know which ones are not correct and I will gladly retract in public. I’m not here to fight or mislead.