One Year Later Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols' Libel Against Richard Stallman Remains Online and Uncorrected at ZDNet
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2020-09-10 10:24:11 UTC
- Modified: 2020-09-10 10:24:11 UTC
Richard Stallman (RMS) already refuted this article 5 months before it was published; 17 months later it remains uncorrected
Summary: Call it a "senior moment" or deliberate, malicious fabrication; Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols doesn't seem to be bothered that ZDNet -- a de facto extension of Microsoft's PR agencies -- still carries outright libel under his own name (refuted by RMS himself even before the lynching)
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