In the link from the last page of the article, RipOffReport provides some rationale for this. They liken it to a court case where a person is sued and found innocent. Despite having received a good verdict, all the paperwork of the lawsuit still exists on permanent public record.

That being said, the original article contains some pretty strongly worded statements from the court indicating that RipOffReport is being a bit shady, but that the court's hands are tied by law. It doesn't seem that way to me from reading RipOffReport's side of things, but then it's worth keeping in mind that the court might know more than we do.

This. What he screwed up was directly related to his job. It's more like a truck driver that drops your product, leaves it in the rain, runs over some people on the way to the delivery, takes a five-day pit-stop in Vegas, and then yells at YOU when he finally delivers it late and you complain. You would fire that truck-driver in a heartbeat, and be happy if he never worked as a truck driver again.

This. In my experience, dealing with bugs is very much a two-way street. If you want users to submit better bug reports, you need to be responsive to them so that they feel like they're getting something out of it. Imagine yourself as a user who takes the time to prepare a nice bug report, then waits a month to see any progress. How much time are you going to spend on your next bug report? Either way you behave, it ends up as a feedback loop -- your choice whether it's a positive of negative one.

Doh. That was my first post to Slashdot and I was all excited, too... Let's just go ahead and save that one forever.

Was this article funded by Apple? It's very biased, as demonstrated by the fact that they cite the 22% of people who don't like the Fire rather than the 88% who clearly do. Even if _every_ one of those 22% gave it one star and _every_ one of the other 88% gave it only 4 stars, it's still a 3.75 rating. My wife got one a while back and she loves it. Sure, it's not an iPad, but it's also only $199, and it fits in a good-size pocket. It's a great little tablet for the price of two nice dinners. I sill prefer the real e-ink, but for getting all the additional tablet features, I'd say it's a pretty good compromise. Sure, it could use some improvements, but its the first generation, and it does what its advertised to do. Anyone used to Android should have no problem with it.