>If Online Solutions wanted to avoid a catastrophe by submitting the bug to MS, thats what they would have done.

They did.

> Instead, they assumed they knew how to fix the problem they found and how long it should take then refused to test the fix because they didn't have access to the source code like MS does.

Re-read it with glasses off, please. They basically said it was easier of MS to do the testing, and that a private copy of the patch wouldn't do much good if it's not released to the public.

> They completely ignored every political issue involved here,

Who's creating the policy, in the first place? Or is it that there are two policies in effect here, one with MS trying to keep the shark unpublished, so the people would go swimming and have good time, and the other one which is more concerned about what the shark may actually do meanwhile.

>along with many technical issues, including the deployment of the fix.

You mean the " and we thought that one weeks notice (common in open source community) for them to build and release a patch should be adequate." is enough to prove ignorance?

> Finally, and inappropriately, they took matters in to their own hands by creating a scene around this security problem. A big no no.

Imagine you discovered one of the manhole lids in your street was actually cracked and if anyone over 200lb stepped on it the crack would widen enough for it to be dangerous. You call the proper city agency, and they tell you they're working on it, and it takes a week or two. You just sit because you don't want to create a scene, behave irresponsibly, inappropriately or take matters into your own hands.

>Between the faulty assumptions, misinformation, grammar/spelling problems, and overall childish behavior, "voting" for the irresponsible company is actually pretty easy. Just my 2 cents.

A bit of useless information for you: the websites with a .fi in address are in Finland. Finnish language belongs to the Ugro-Finnish group (along with Hungarian, Estonian and a couple of others - Andrus Moor could tell more about it), and its (their) grammar is based on a completely different set of building blocks than other Indo-European languages. Having learned one of the languages of this family, I can tell you you can't imagine how different they can be. Besides, we don't pick on anyone around here for grammar-and-spelling related reasons, because we'd probably be left with few highly literate people. This principle, however, doesn't count on the outside, right?