non-disclosure of infrastructure problem a management issue?

[Bruce Byfield]

On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 13:41 -0600, Frank Cox wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 11:27:47 -0800
> Jeff Spaleta <jspaleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >  the full details
> > can not be publicly disclosed instantaneously due to legal constraint
> 
> This I simply don't understand.

Anybody who has had extensive dealings with lawyers knows that they tend
to err on the side of caution at any time. When a publicly traded
company is involved, that's even more true.

Whether Red Hat and Fedora could have acted differently is a debatable
point. But that Red Hat acted as it did is not surprising. Just because
a corporation is open source, it doesn't stop being a corporation.

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