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This is probably futile, but ESR's original message appears to have been private, so there could not have been any intention of "defaming" Perens.

Perens posted the private message on a Debian list:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/04/msg00623.html

And received some pushback:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/1999/04/msg00636.html

I don't condone ESR's original message and would never write something like that, but again, you are totally exaggerating.



I'm not claiming that that ESR's private message with the threat was the defamation itself. That would come later, in public.

The implied "Second Amendment Solution" threat of "I will find a way to make you regret it" is that Raymond the angry gun nut would shoot Perens, but Raymond's plausible denial after the fact was that he actually only meant he would make Perens regret it by attacking his reputation in public.

He must feel inspired and vindicated by Trump's antics.

I'm still waiting for you to mansplain how Raymond was justified in accusing members of the open source software community of being "fools" and "thugs", and how "thugs" had absolutely nothing to do with the racial context of "Blacks are Lazy".




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