[danneskjold]

Besides, at least the open source community has the guts to admit to these kinds of problems.

Huh? The point of the article seemed to imply that the real problem was with Red Hat releasing their patch before everyone else, who "...weren't working at a breakneck pace to get a patch out, because everyone was working together."

[B Knotts]

That has to do with CERT, who have a policy since last year of notifying vendors/distributors first, before publicly announcing a vulnerability.

And at the time CERT adopted this policy, some people predicted problems like this as a result (i.e., waiting to fix bugs until right before the public announcement).

[Blade]

Huh? The point of the article seemed to imply that the real problem was with Red Hat releasing their patch before everyone else

My point was not in reference to the specifics of this article. It was a broad observation about open source versus commercial. Commercial entities tend to favor withholding, hiding and supressing information--assuming they can get away with doing so. The Open Source community tends to favor the opposite.

Here is a case in point.

It's Time to End Information Anarchy