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Headline news: geofft@HN states, "I deliberately write code without tests and ignore code review and cause problems in production" and goes on to say "my employ

• geofft 7y ago
  That's fine, because such a story is implausible to anyone who knows me or has heard of me. Go ahead and publish it. I support your right to free speech. Do you? (Also, my job is technical and not PR, and I have been arguing consistently that both RMS and the free software movement would have been better off if he had made himself a role that was primarily technical and not PR.)
  • deogeo 7y ago
    > Go ahead and publish it. I support your right to free speech. Do you? Even free-speech extremists such as myself and the US Supreme Court don't support libel.
    • geofft 7y ago
      I've long suspected that people who virtue signal about free speech don't actually believe in it nearly as much as the people who genuinely have something to say.
      • panny 7y ago
        And now you have proof; The "it's free as in speech" FSF has fired their founder for something he said.