Rant: That Is Not an Apology CertGuard. You Have to Say Sorry!

So after Bred Reese got on the phone to Robert Williams at Certguard and told them what to do, they have con­tac­ted Ethan Banks. Ethan has returned to the web and indic­ates that all is well.

I am not so forgiving.

Lets look at the state­ment of regret pos­ted at Network World:

“Network World and the authors have decided to remove this blog post and the dis­cus­sion that fol­lowed. While the ori­ginal post was inten­ded to high­light how the issue of brain­dumps is a per­vas­ive one, we regret hav­ing singled out any­one in par­tic­u­lar and apo­lo­gize for any accus­a­tions of cheating.”

1. Not a single ‘sorry’ in sight. It is NOT AN APOLOGY. An apo­logy means say­ing sorry. No amount of weasel­ing can change that.
2. No men­tion of CertGuard or Robert Williams here. I sug­gest that Network World regrets hav­ing let this go on for so long. Its my opin­ion that Robert Williams prob­ably didn’t write this.
3. If Robert Williams and Certguard are not sorry, then they will do it again. I am very concerned.

Who else will suffer ?

If Robert Williams gets away with false accus­a­tions, then he is likely to do it again. If the next per­son is not so pub­lic, who will pro­tect them ?

If CertGuard are to gain our sup­port, they must do the following:

1. Issue a full and com­plete apo­logy. With the word sorry. Acceptance is the first step in recovery.
2. Robert Williams needs to make a per­sonal apo­logy to us, the Cisco com­munity, for being unreasonable.
3. CertGuard needs to announce a code of eth­ics to remind them­selves how to act like grownups.
4. CertGuard must pub­licly state their pos­i­tion on pub­licly accus­ing people in the future.

Have I missed anything ?

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