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On corporate PR and proper credit

Posted Aug 2, 2005 22:24 UTC (Tue) by corbet (editor, #1)
In reply to: On corporate PR and proper credit by sbergman27
Parent article: On corporate PR and proper credit

Interesting. I don't believe that was there before - I looked hard for it. Maybe some of the grief I gave their PR person carried through. We need an internet archive with sub-hour resolution...:)

This is a step in the right direction anyway, and a good thing.

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Posted Aug 2, 2005 22:47 UTC (Tue) by sbergman27 (subscriber, #10767) [Link]

I imagine it wasn't there. I'm going to guess that 90% of PR people hired by OSS companies require "orientation" regarding how things work in OSS, and what is considered acceptable, and what is considered an inexcusable insult.

Honest mistake, I suspect.

Less than two hours to fix the problem after it's pointed out is not too bad.

If Montavista's security advisory response time is this good...

Posted Aug 3, 2005 0:45 UTC (Wed) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

...then I'd consider them a first-preference vendor.

Thanks Jon for raising the bug, and thanks to Montavista's publicity people for correcting the error so quickly.

(I guess the text of a web page doesn't need quite as much integration and testing before deployment as, say, a major rewrite of the kernel's synchronisation primitives :-)