After the famous Facebook outage a few days ago, Facebook Engineering made a – to be fair, reasonably detailed – statement on what went wrong and how it affected the service. One particular comment attached to it drew my attention:
“It’s great to hear and see that big companies like Facebook are so open with what they do. That’s rare, very rare. Thanks!”
Huh? Did I miss some announcement of openness and freedom?
It’s a very sad statement on how far we are from a norm of public accountability: people are shocked when some big organisation actually admits and explains some particular mistake.
No, just some sarcasm.
No-one mentioned anything about freedom.
john, you’re a fucking idiot.