Microsofter Throwing Stones in a Glasshouse Again
"Life is imitating art" and if you're a BS artist, your life must be BS
It's not an original or novel tactic. It's not even based on anything true. We need to prebunk or debunk this madness because the serial defamer typically just proceeds to defaming whoever challenges his lies. It is the modus operandi of dictatorship.
So someone has decided to equate support of Julian Assange with support of rape. Oh, yes! Again! Then - gasp! - try to hold the FSF accountable for it. Yes, we know that routine...
Theodore Ts'o is familiar with this routine and also with the "artist", a Microsofter who tries to associate anyone he does not like with... something "rape".
Glasshouse analogies are very applicable here, as the "artist" has quite a lot of BS to hide, and suing people isn't going to hide it. Quite the contrary.
Just ask my wife Rianne, the author of Tux Machines, what she has been subjected to by this "artist", who then attacked her some more. She runs a site which turned 20 this month (June 10th), she actually uses GNU/Linux, and she isn't someone who attacks women, unlike the "artist".
To be clear, the "artist" said himself that he looking for sex in FOSS conferences (according to himself!). He spoke on his Web site about doing code for sexual favours. He was writing about "axe-murdering" on his Web site. He was talking on his blog about wanting to stab his colleagues... the source of this being himself. He talked about his female colleague being afraid of him. He boasts about breaking into devices. He seems to also reject biological women and resorts to attacking them, especially if they do better than him (Rianne's Web site is exceptionally popular and have been around for more than 2 decades).
This "artist" is basically a "BS artist" and his target audience is Microsofters and Microsoft apologists (even the public talks merely relay the Linux FUD that was cooked inside Microsoft). The FSF is raising funds this month and next month. What better way to undermine that with malicious allegations of "rape" something? █