Which gives the "withhold" part of the story a strong push towards Hanlon's Razor, once the topic escalated to higher ranks the copyright ceased to be a hindrance.
Or more precisely, towards an organizational variety of Hanlon's Razor, where stupidity takes the form of the organizational failure mode of underlings not being authorized to do what would have been the right thing.
Curiously, a less colloquial formulation of Hanlon's Razor would replace stupidity with incompetence and this, when translated to German contains a hint of a precisely matching double entendre: in German, "Kompetenz" is used for two separate things. For being able to (like in English) and being authorized to. It's not a full double entendre because the negated form "Inkompetenz" is exclusive to the mental ability, just like the English counterpart, but what's a good aphorism without subtle extra layers?
Or more precisely, towards an organizational variety of Hanlon's Razor, where stupidity takes the form of the organizational failure mode of underlings not being authorized to do what would have been the right thing.
Curiously, a less colloquial formulation of Hanlon's Razor would replace stupidity with incompetence and this, when translated to German contains a hint of a precisely matching double entendre: in German, "Kompetenz" is used for two separate things. For being able to (like in English) and being authorized to. It's not a full double entendre because the negated form "Inkompetenz" is exclusive to the mental ability, just like the English counterpart, but what's a good aphorism without subtle extra layers?