It would be funny if the authors of the email RFCs sued Ayyadurai for defamation. Not likely to result in any useful outcome, but funny.
> "False speech is not protected by the Constitution, and TechDirt’s false and malicious speech about Dr. Ayyadurai should receive no legal protection"
The irony this is the same guy who spoke at the Boston Free Speech Rally.
What is this guy's claim? Email name? Since email as an exchange of messages has been around since (before) he was born.
Essentially, yes. Shiva Ayyadurai developed some little system that he called "email", which had little resemblance to the email we now use, and then recently claimed that he "invented email". And this in spite of the fact that the real email was developed and thoroughly documented by other people well before this guy's "invention".