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Nobody's defending Rabbit here, but that's chickenshit journalism, and it happens too often.


Since when is an individual's personal blog "journalism", and therefore expected to live up to that standard?


>Since when is an individual's personal blog "journalism", and therefore expected to live up to that standard?

If the author is going to pretend to be a journalist of a security researcher, I see no problem holding their work to the ethical standards expected from those sorts of people.


It might not be "journalism", but I think it's pretty reasonable to wait a week for responses before dropping serious accusations It's not exactly a onerous requirement to meet.


It’s also pretty reasonable to respect the GPL when you financially benefit from it, yet here we are.


No no no, Rabbits mistakes are honest small mistakes from a great company! But this author, man of pure evil, hasn't waited long enough for my favourite bunny company to cover up their lies :(


Most of what's mentioned in the article is not any new allegations. Rabbit has been berated for their GPL violations for over a month now and the excessive logging was rectified before he even sent in a request for comment.

Requesting comments were only a formality to address already voiced concerns


I think it's entirely reasonable to report what you find when you find it, and update later with responses received.


Reasonable? Sure.

Expected and therefore commented that it's chickenshit when it doesn't happen? Yeah, no. If this were a reputable news outlet, that expectation would be reasonable.


I take it as a compliment!


>I could write a whole other article about how hostile and dismissive they've been to researchers

Please do.




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