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> 2. RMS is not obviously asking for any understanding nor promising to be better. You can't apologize once there is a mixture of 10% truth and 90% defamation.
by claxter 6y ago
> 2. RMS is not obviously asking for any understanding nor promising to be better.
You can't apologize once there is a mixture of 10% truth and 90% defamation.
The libelous press will then print that the target has apologized for 100%, and therefore has validated the libel.
- neilk 6y agoThis is an interesting argument. So the existence of bad faith actors means that one should never address one's own harms?
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- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoI agree that the vast majority of complaints against him are unreasonable. But without some sort of apology or promise to do better, what are we supposed to tell those 10% with valid issues?