We all see the evidence that is online and that is not actual evidence, so we need to believe the guy that hated RMS sicne forever or someone memories. But please feel free to contact RMS enemies like Microsoft and RedHat they will help you with your evidence and bring justice to the wold , they should have some money for a good lawyer.
Which numerous credible accounts? I believe this was more likely a smear campaign and some might have jumped on the train considering the nature of the accusations.
I do have screenshots and "solid" evidence that the account is from a developer from the same consulting firm, but I think it's a very hard case to defend.
I agree that trashing their name all over the internet is the easiest, but I don't think a lot of people will see it and I won't get anything in return other than (some) immediate satisfaction. The positive side is that at least for the few that might see it, I'm warning them of the dangers of trusting third parties...
Anyone can send an email to anyone else and make any claims they like. Now please prove to us that the "collaboration" and events described in that email actually took place.
And for all we know he had a picture of his newborn. Aren't you promoting the same hearsay?
you said:
I'm suprised how easily people swallow someone else's hearsay and then spray vomit it out as the truth.
and then you said:
Having followed a bunch of these types of stories on some other sites (webhostingtalk), 9 out of 10 times the "victim" is holding back so much details from the actual story that they might as well be lying.
You're contradicting yourself. You're stating hearsay (you had no direct contact with the issue of 9/10 lying people, you only heard it from webhostingtalk) and then purporting it to be true.
Regardless of whether the original author is telling the truth, it doesn't matter because that's not the point of the article. The point is that you may lose more than you know simply by being deemed a violator in the eyes of Microsoft, so it's buyer beware.
Relating to your comment: People are innocent until proven guilty in the US. If Microsoft found something that they deemed a code of conduct violation, then they can bring it up with the police or they can at least bring it up with the account owner. Maybe it was SkyDrive uploading more than he expected?
In the light of 290MB of scattered DLLs mentioned above, I believe that this is more than elegant way to advocate the guy who made this false claim - if you read carefully enough, you'll notice that it wasn't me. Care to check?
This is a good website for actually believing someone, I think.
(In the last year or two I posted an otherwise unreported anecdote involving a famous tech person and the only response was someone telling me I made it up.)
To elaborate, it's very unlikely that the Unipress guys would in fact back up Gosling's version, because it's false, and they're basically honest people. I've searched for evidence of the Unipress lawsuits against DEC and IBM; there is no evidence that they ever existed. I'm very interested in seeing this evidence if it does exist.
If you haven't seen such evidence and you don't know these people, then why would you post such baseless accusations?
If this is the case, then why don't you just present your evidence regardless? I don't think anyone knows who to believe, for all we know you and the author are the same person and have created some weird situation to drum up PR for your plugin...
Seriously? Given video proof, and without bothering to check for multiple supporting testimony from other affected users, you make cheap irrelevant accusations?
That's not a reasonable thing to ask him to say in this situation. I don't know if you realize this, but you're just some random dude making a claim with nothing at all to back it up besides that you said it. You said there was info online, but haven't provided it. You said your acquaintance has hard evidence, but realistically we're all going to forget about this conversation before you ever actually provide it.
Sorry dude, this is not a claim you're going to have taken seriously with the level of info you've provided.
It just seems odd to me that a seemingly well respected engineer would fabricate allegations using his corporate e-mail (VMWare). We should remember it was not he who posted them publicly.
I'm not saying it's true but only that I don't see any more evidence that it isn't true than that it is - yet.
I briefly looked for other information about this and I found this thread on the tor-talk mailing list. The thread mentions he contacted the torservers.net team for a recommendation about a lawyer. The thread also mentions someone is going to provide better proof soon.
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