[justtocomment]

Without ever having heard of this case, I'd like to add two, maybe unrelated, datapoints:

* I know Matthias Kirschner personally (though not very good). This story does not fit the character I met.

* There is a campaign of disinformation, character assassination and harrassment going on against the Debian project, the FSFE, and their members (maybe other projects as well). This has been going on for multiple years now, presumably all orchestrated by the same individual, impersonating a multitude of different persons.

Edit:

I also met Malina Galina in person, she made a positive impression on me. I just found out the linked text also shows up on her twitter account.

[Brian_K_White]

Yet the courts validated her assertions.

I take that as entirely trumping this attempt to deny or excuse the inexcusable.

[13steinj]

According to who though? She made bold claims, without providing any actual proof in the form of court documents. Why jump to assume she's in the right?

[Brian_K_White]

Did she hide her identity?

[nikanj]

According to her, the courts validated her assertions. According to the FSF, they did not. https://fsfe.org/about/statement-20201220.html

Unless someone pulls the court documents and gets them translated, we are very much operating in a word-against-word situation