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Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman by throw0101a on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:09AM (#21113830)
> I'm sorry for the specific request, but it must be a first hand account of an event.

The excerpt is from an e-mail that John Gruber received in 2011. It is the written testimony of someone who witnessed the events in question first hand.

Re:In Defense of Richard Stallman by sergiosgc on Monday September 30, 2019 @07:15AM (#21113884)
It's a blog post written around an excerpt from an email of someone who did not witness the abuse event, but knew and interacted with the abused at the time. In my book, that's a second hand account of the event.