Well, they pretty much described what actually happened, which is that VMware wasn't all that confident about their security and panicked when the source appeared.
While I too would like the article to poke some fun at VMware's attitude ;) I have to say I really didn't find it particularly offensive as it stands.
I understand the dislike for presenting closed source as "security", but in this case it seems to have been uninformed copy-paste from VMware's statements, not the author's agenda. I guess we can only expect so much from journalists who don't hang out at HN. Hopefully this whole myth will die natural death as open source OSs are becoming mainstream, especially on servers where security counts.
While I too would like the article to poke some fun at VMware's attitude ;) I have to say I really didn't find it particularly offensive as it stands.
I understand the dislike for presenting closed source as "security", but in this case it seems to have been uninformed copy-paste from VMware's statements, not the author's agenda. I guess we can only expect so much from journalists who don't hang out at HN. Hopefully this whole myth will die natural death as open source OSs are becoming mainstream, especially on servers where security counts.