HP sucks

I didn't think much of Bruce Perens calling off his planned violation of the DMCA because of concerns by his employer, Hewlett Packard.  After all, the DMCA is bad law, and HP was just trying to protect themselves from a bad law which is increasingly being exercised.  Now however, HP's motives become clearer.

On July 19th, a researcher from SnoSoft posted an exploit to BugTraq.  Granted, I would assume from the tone of the message, that good responsible disclosure policies had not been followed with this notice.  Regardless, HP's response would seem a bit heavy handed.

It wouldn't look good for HP to be prosecuting a DMCA complaint, while at the same time letting one of its employees openly protest its legality.

Yes, HP is truly a good "open source citizen"

I'd hope to see futher comment by Bruce Perens on this in the near future, but I'm not optimistic.