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A comment on Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals. Parent comment

Re:Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals by claxter on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:41AM (#26708279)
> 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.

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Re:Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals by neilk on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @01:56AM (#26708390)
This 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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Re:Bruce Perens: On Non-Judicical Punishment of Individuals by SpicyLemonZest on Tuesday April 06, 2021 @02:44AM (#26708755)
I 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?
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