Jesus christ it happened again. Sorry. This has to be on me. If any mod could trash my last reply I'd appreciate it. I'll just rewrite/finish it here.

@timeisrestored I agree with your second point which is why I'm trying my best to look at the facts instead of at the way Gio interpreted them. His framing however also puts into question the reason why negotiations went on for so long, so I guess you could have a point here, but they could've also lasted that long because Hussie became insistent of having Gio edit/remove the articles while Gio still pushed on with his belief that Hussie would "drop the issue", which I do think was a naive idea but also he didn't have a lot of choice since with the legal action Hussie was preparing, at that point there were no more actions he could take other than give in to Hussie's demands or wait for the C&D or DMCA or whatever was coming for him.

And yeah the call to action is shitty, I don't deny that. In fact I don't like a lot of things about the article. It's just that none of that matters to what I'm discussing because the negotiations came before he wrote that.