[Meme] Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Defending Crime Again

Dr. Roy Schestowitz

2022-07-14 01:34:51 UTC
Modified: 2022-07-14 01:34:51 UTC

SJVN shilling Microsoft
Microsoft, according to SJVN, "hasn't been evil for about eight years now" in this piece that's hours-old. Article full of lies, distortion, and revisionism (retirement is well overdue, get off the Linux Foundation money).

Summary: An unbelievably misleading article, full of errors, has been published by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols; he also helped shield Bill Gates (Jeffrey Epstein enabler) by defaming Richard Stallman in a site funded by Microsoft, IBM, and their front group 'Linux' Foundation

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[Meme] Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols Defending Crime Again

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