09.10.20

One Year Later Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols’ Libel Against Richard Stallman Remains Online and Uncorrected at ZDNet

Posted in Deception, Microsoft at 5:24 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

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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