☞ Boosters and Detractors 2.0

  • Congratulations to Georg Greve on being awarded a German knighthood for his contributions to software freedom.
  • “What’s remarkable about this entire episode is how decade-old web writings have been used against me in a blog-based smear campaign, which then, after another two years, successfully escalated into a mainstream news publication. This is an eye-opening example of how defamatory information can be spread – all going back to an anonymous smear letter distributed in 2008 – and how helpless and incompetent mainstream media can be when dealing with such challenges.”